[governance] IGC's NETMundial Submission

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Funnily enough carriers in india have been slashing International data 
roaming charges and T-Mobile has post paid packages with free international 
data roaming.

So even that is changing and will change faster as a lot more moves away 
from traditional phone systems to voip



On 8 March 2014 4:51:28 PM Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> 
wrote:

> 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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