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Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:01:56 -0700
Roland Dobbins wrote:
On Mar 13, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Daniel Senie wrote:As with the deployment of telephone service a century ago, the ubiquitious availability of broadband service will require government involvement in the form of fees on some and subsidies for others (might be a good use for the funds Massachusetts is trying to extract from Verizon for property tax on telephone poles, I suppose). Otherwise, we'll see the broadband providers continue to cherry pick the communities to service, and leave others in the digital dustbowl.Various rural phone companies aside, the majority of this was accomplished in the U.S. via a regulated monopoly, and in many other countries via a government-owned regulated monopoly. Do you believe that's necessary and/or desirable in order to make broadband ubiquitous? How do longer-range wireless technologies like WiMAX potentially impact the equation?
The thing that I would observe is that on the way to deploying ubiquitous phone services most emerging markets skipped the step where they wire everything up because they simply couldn't afford it. Competing cell carriers did a lot more to put communications services in the hands of rural and urban africans than the monopoly ptt's ever did.
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