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
