[ NNSquad ] Re: Additional or differentiated services

[Larry Press <lpress@csudh.edu>]

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