[127524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Finland makes broadband access a legal right
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Jul 1 22:34:33 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilh2hagwUvCoxQKCkbFhYpvd3c3HZrCwqfqseXi@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:33:57 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 1, 2010, at 6:17 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> wrote:
>> http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/07/01/finland.broadband/index.html?hpt=T2
>
> In the US, the Communications Act of 1934 brought about the creation
> of the "Universal Service Fund." The idea, more or less, was that
> every phone line customer contributed to the fund (you'll find it
> itemized on your phone bill) and the phone companies had to charge the
> same for every phone line regardless of where delivered in their
> territory but when initially installing an unusually difficult
> (expensive) phone line the phone company was entitled to reimburse its
> cost from the fund.
>
> In 1996 a certain inventor of the Internet decided that the universal
> service fund needed to pay for PCs in rural schools (the "E-Rate"
> program) instead of improving rural communications...
>
>
Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) invented the Internet ?
Regards
Marshall
>
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