<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Quite often this is not an internet governance question but a telecom competition policy question. </div><div><br></div><div>If a country's government has an enlightened attitude in freeing up telecom from being a government monopoly, providing for fair competition such as unbundling, sharing the last mile (whether cell towers or copper / fiber), providing access to government owned rights of way (such as laying fiber along railway track beds, and in city utility tunnels / lamp posts) then you will automatically get to see cheaper Internet access.<br><br>There is little or nothing that we are going to achieve by putting this on the table at netmundial, I am afraid. A laudable goal and all that, but we have to stay focused.</div><div><br></div><div>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 08-Mar-2014, at 1:30, Mawaki Chango <<a href="mailto:kichango@gmail.com">kichango@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div>
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I suspect the proponent means to refer to the level of economic development of a region or a group pf people, or something along those lines. Is there a formulation that would make it more acceptable to you as a "pragmatic aspiration"?</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Roland Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roland@internetpolicyagency.com" target="_blank">roland@internetpolicyagency.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">In message <<a href="mailto:CACTo%2Bv9HopxnZKnuR00n-X21oMq-wgxgRy5CDWL5q_%2B8Fs7H_g@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">CACTo+v9HopxnZKnuR00n-X21oMq-<u></u>wgxgRy5CDWL5q_+8Fs7H_g@mail.<u></u>gmail.com</a>>, at 14:55:15 on Fri, 7 Mar 2014, Mawaki Chango <<a href="mailto:kichango@gmail.com" target="_blank">kichango@gmail.com</a>> writes<div>
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6- There must not be discrimination in access and contents due to criteria such as opinion, religion, race, gender, geography, language, or economic resources<br>
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If this means that everyone's international 3G roaming charges should be the same as buying the cheapest local-SIM available anywhere in the world, then I'm sure you will get a great deal of support.<br>
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The only question remaining being "who will break this news to the mobile networks".<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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Roland Perry<br>
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