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?
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