[95429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Tue Mar 20 20:39:27 2007
In-Reply-To: <716369A5-C018-47CF-95D4-8CB6F9724711@cisco.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:38:22 -0700
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 13 Mar 2007, at 20:31, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Daniel Senie wrote:
>
>> A universal service charge could be applied to all bills, with the
>> funds going to subsidize rural areas.
>>
> This is already done in the U.S., to no discernible effect.
>
That isn't *quite* the opinion that AT&T have ...
... http://gigaom.com/2007/02/07/atts-free-call-bill-2-million/
Although that is people using the rural kickback as a loophole to
provide free telephony to people outside the area.. still shows that
regulation always comes with an unexpected effect when times,
technology and ideas advance.
Cheers
-a
