[governance] Blogpost: Alternative "Best Practices" for the A4AI (to be renamed Alliance for an Accessible Internet)

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Highest mobile costs relative to local expenses?

Back when this was what internet access cost in India, you could feed a middle class family of four for a week on that amount.

—srs

> On 27-Mar-2016, at 8:25 PM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Suresh,
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> Canada has among the highest mobile costs in the world and supposedly we have a “competitive market”…
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> And needless to say we still need extensive government intervention to ensure service to the un/underserved.
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> M
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> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:suresh at hserus.net] 
> Sent: March 27, 2016 7:11 AM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at consensus.pro>
> Cc: Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [governance] Blogpost: Alternative "Best Practices" for the A4AI (to be renamed Alliance for an Accessible Internet)
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> Especially as the alternative in such countries is typically a government owned monopoly with all the inefficiencies and market distortion of a monopoly and all the sloth and bureaucracy of an overly large public sector organization ..
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> I am not sure if you have ever had to pay over $200 a month to a state owned telco for a 33.6k dialup.
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>> On 27-Mar-2016, at 7:37 PM, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at consensus.pro <mailto:nashton at consensus.pro>> wrote:
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>> As to your views on competitive markets and their suitability, I don’t wish to get into a debate - you are free to think what you like - but there is a very great deal of evidence that competitive telecom markets produce lower Internet access prices at higher performance. I am sitting in an LDC which has exactly this experience and it is far from unique. If your objection to markets means you object to this fundamental idea, again, your free to do what you like, but unless you can point to an equally effective non-market-based solution that works at scale and across all levels of economic development I would’t expect your counterargument to get very far.

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