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[ NNSquad ] Re: Additional or differentiated services


On 8/27/2010 1:10 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:

Even where government is the
service provider, there are cases in which it's simply too expensive to
provide certain utility services, so I don't see that the utility model
really makes the case for universal high-speed, low-latency broadband.

Chile used a market-based approach in rural areas -- telephone companies make competitive bids as to how much subsidy they would require to make them willing to serve an area.


See the Chilean case study in:
http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/iteipc20065_en.pdf

Larry Press