[governance] Internet for All ... this time from the UK

[Cave, Jonathan]

It depends on the quid pro quo. If BB for all means infrastructure paid out of public funds, it is potentially a gift to all telcos. If paid by a univ svce fund or regulatory relief, it's a gift to the most-regulated telco, and raises competition concerns. But if the assumption that universal BB unlocks net economic gains (including ways to mobilise the economic power of those newly-connected), it is a gift from society to itself.

J.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:21:08 
To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] Internet for All ... this time from the UK


In message <C5C6560F9A524F4B826F15C29FBD7418 at userPC>, at 08:34:35 on 
Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> writes
>What I think needs to be added to Parminder's comments though is that the
>simple provision of Broadband access is quite insufficient without the
>parallel and associated investment in socially directed training, enabling
>of locally accessible technical maintenance and support and community
>focussed applications development (as for example in the area of health
>management, support for local education and locally based training,
>environmental management and so on... In the absence of these investments in
>Broadband "access" are simply gifts to the telcos or other service
>providers.

The *universal* access of which I spoke, relates only to the remaining 
10% of the population that telcos find too expensive to service using 
normal commercial rules. Governments mandating that they *do* service 
these customers (at the same price as the easy 90%) doesn't sound much 
like a "gift" to those telcos.
-- 
Roland Perry
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