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Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?
From: Aled Morris <aledm () qix co uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:47:56 +0000
On 5 January 2012 15:22, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
Understand: I'm not saying that FiOS should be a human right. But as a society, America's recognized for decades that you gotta have a telephone, and subsidized local/lifeline service to that extent; that sort of subsidy applies to cellular phones now as well.
There is a subtlety here too - when we grant a monopoly (e.g. to operate a physical loop or in licensing spectrum) in return we often place a "universal service obligation" on the operator in order they don't abuse their monoply by not providing service to "less profitable" customers. This isn't the same as a "right" to a phone. Aled
Current thread:
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?, (continued)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Zaid Ali (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Jay Ashworth (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Marshall Eubanks (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Zaid Ali (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Daniel Staal (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Franck Martin (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Barry Shein (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Jay Ashworth (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Zaid Ali (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Vadim Antonov (Jan 05)
- RE: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Nathan Eisenberg (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Vadim Antonov (Jan 05)