[governance] IGC's NETMundial Submission

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<CACTo+v-NWwCNdae3ks_JF2nLqR97KPiE+OpW=MADtENX8CJWeA at mail.gmail.com>, at 
20:00:17 on Fri, 7 Mar 2014, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> writes
>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"?

I'm fully supportive of removing *artificial* cost barriers that affect 
regions.

But I remember when by far the biggest cost of setting up an ISP (and 
hence the biggest cost to my subscribers) in the UK was leasing a 
transatlantic connection to New York. Every sent to or from another user 
in the UK went via New York.

For reasons such as this, the *inherent* cost of providing access 
differs enormously depending on the geography and (the point I was 
making earlier) the local loop technology used, even within a developed 
country such as the UK.

Very approximately, $20 will buy me 1GB of 3G/4G connectivity a month, 
or "unlimited" (in practice up to perhaps 100GB) of landline 
connectivity a month.

Politics is never going to change that, although politics might one day 
change the fact that if I access the Internet on a different part of the 
*same* company's Pan-European 3G network, I would get only about 100MB 
for my $20 (which is an order of magnitude more data than I might have 
got only a few years ago).

>On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
>  In message <CACTo+v9HopxnZKnuR00n-X21oMq-  wgxgRy5CDWL5q_+8Fs7H_g at mail.gmail.com>, at 14:55:15 on Fri, 7 Mar
>  2014, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> writes
>    6- There must not be discrimination in access and contents due to
>>    criteria such as opinion, religion, race, gender, geography,
>>    language, or economic resources
 >
>  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.
>
>  The only question remaining being "who will break this news to the
>  mobile networks".

-- 
Roland Perry

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