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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">My 2 cents is the general principles/objectives being pushed by the ITU's Broadband Commission are not bad, but the fact of the matter is it more a classic high-level talkathon
opportunity than anything else. Submitting docs to them is likely not worth the time it would as Michael suggests. And for CS, certainly not worth the bother of trying to shape/steer at this late date when the dye is cast.
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Since for example Carlos Slim may be personally a nice guy but he has been absolutely ruthless stifling competitors in the Mexican telecoms market. Telmex's exploitation (only word for it) of the Mexican market has caused very high service prices to this day,
which may account for the limited uptake of broadband services there. Just a guess.
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In fact Carlos and Mexico has long been my favorite object lesson in my classes for my students on the benefits of exploiting telecom monopoly 101: you too can become the world's richest, IF you find the right telecoms market to control!! Or, put another way,
why you/your business/organization/nation should favor competing providers. <br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF664781"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] on behalf of John Curran [jcurran@istaff.org]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 07, 2012 9:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> michael gurstein<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] ITU Broadband Commission<br>
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<div>On Apr 7, 2012, at 9:23 AM, michael gurstein wrote:</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">As I noted in my blogpost, the BBC didn't even seem to have a knowledge of this history let alone learning something from it. I personally see no reason
to believe that it will be anything more useful/effectful than any of the vehicles that have gone before and considerable evidence that it will in fact be even less useful/open to the kind of input and advice that I would consider to be of signficance and
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<div><span class="835490413-07042012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">So good luck with it,</font></span></div>
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<div>I myself have little knowledge of what input on broadband development would be </div>
<div>most appropriate for the BBC to consider, but note that it takes about 5 minutes </div>
<div>to submit a document into their process. There may not be any opportunity for </div>
<div>meaningful interaction, but I also will not fault them for failing to consider relevant </div>
<div>documents that no one brings to their attention.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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