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Re: De-funding the ITU
From: Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:23:12 -0800
On Jan 14, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
On Jan 14, 2013, at 7:27 AM, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:The solution is not to cut off the poor countries.I have no reason whatsoever to believe that defunding the ITU would cut off the poor countries. Quite the contrary, actually. I believe that the combination of the ITU and the back-pocket distribution of settlement checks has held back the improvement of digital connections to poorer countries.
Exactly. The ITU bleeds poor countries dry, by keeping communications costs exorbitantly high, while appeasing them with settlements. The Internet doesn't need to bribe destitute people with settlements, because it's five orders of magnitude less expensive: affordable enough that they can get online in the first place. http://oecdinsights.org/2012/10/22/internet-traffic-exchange-2-billion-users-and-its-done-on-a-handshake/ The ITU has $181M/year. It'll do just fine without our money. No sense in throwing good money after bad. -Bill
Current thread:
- Re: De-funding the ITU, (continued)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Bill Woodcock (Jan 12)
- Re: De-funding the ITU bmanning (Jan 13)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Bill Woodcock (Jan 13)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Barry Shein (Jan 13)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Owen DeLong (Jan 14)
- Re: De-funding the ITU John Levine (Jan 14)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Nick Hilliard (Jan 14)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Wayne E Bouchard (Jan 14)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Eliot Lear (Jan 14)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Owen DeLong (Jan 14)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Bill Woodcock (Jan 14)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Nick Hilliard (Jan 14)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Owen DeLong (Jan 14)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Nick Hilliard (Jan 15)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Eric Brunner-Williams (Jan 14)
- Re: De-funding the ITU George Herbert (Jan 14)
- Re: De-funding the ITU John R. Levine (Jan 14)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Eric Brunner-Williams (Jan 13)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Dave Crocker (Jan 13)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Eliot Lear (Jan 13)
- Re: De-funding the ITU Owen DeLong (Jan 14)