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Totally agree. In case of Bangladesh, I remember those monopoly days when
cellular phone came first. Now with the soft policy of the government and
the increased competition, penetration to the Internet through the
cellular phone is becoming more popular (and acceptable) due to various
pricing plans.<br><br>
Best regards,<br>
Hakikur<br><br>
At 11:20 AM 9/3/2012, Chaitanya Dhareshwar wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Very true Avri, telecom has a
very good example here in India<br>
<br>
Take Vodafone as an example. The government here modified the tax law
with retrospective effect from 1960-something just to get them to pay a
few billion rupees extra in taxes. Though Vodafone wasnt an Indian entity
they bought an office (and linked services) in India - yet the rules in
India - modified RETROSPECTIVELY - still affect them. So if the
government were to pursue they could technically recover taxes from them.
<br>
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What are the hand-waving options btw? They sound interesting :)<br>
<br>
-C<br><br>
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Avri Doria
<<a href="mailto:avri@ella.com">avri@ella.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<dl><br>
<dd>On 25 Aug 2012, at 07:56, parminder wrote:<br><br>
<dd>> No, it will make European/ Indian decision applicable *only* to
ICM registry and *not* to the ICANN. This is a straight forward and
obvious fact despite your very clever attempt to twist it to suit
you.<br><br>
<br>
<dd>On the contrary various rulings in various countries against Internet
companies such as Google and Twitter (I think there are examples in other
fields like mining), show that when a company has an office/staff in a
country, not only is the company liable for negative rulings, sometimes
the employees are arrested. I would think that qualifies as having
an effect. But certainly, the US courts have the greatest leverage
by far so far.<br><br>
<dd>I agree full heartedly that ICANN MUST internationalize and have
thought so since the days of WGIG. And while it creeps toward more
international accountability, it is true that it remains primarily under
US legal control, and has agreed to maintain that. Additionally the IANA
contract bid required a US company, which did not help things. Part of
the problem with changing over to a more international arrangements, e.g.
a host country agreement + with some country (perhaps even the US), is
that it is hard to do and no one has come up with a good detailed plan*
yet for dealing with of ICANN governance-by-contract in an
internationalized environment. Well that, and ICANN also does not
seem to have the will for such a change.<br><br>
<dd>For years, a few people inside ICANN have been pushing for real work
on solving the problem of ICANN internationalization to little avail -
maybe with a new regime in charge of ICANN over the next year, this will
happen. I'll keep pushing for it.<br><br>
<dd>avri<br><br>
<dd>* there have been hand-waving plans that could be explored<br><br>
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