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Re: De-funding the ITU
From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:03:18 +0000
On 14/01/2013 19:23, Bill Woodcock wrote:
The ITU bleeds poor countries dry, by keeping communications costs exorbitantly high,
Whoa. What bleeds poor countries dry is bad management of national resources, coupled with inherent kleptocracy, massive corruption and stifling regulation. In short: endemic mismanagement - and this extends way beyond the reach of just the telecoms infrastructure within the country. The ITU's impact in this serves only to provide some post-facto justification for preserving the status quo, nothing more. If any country wants to ditch the dinosaur model, they are free to do so and the ITU has no say in this whatever. And the countries which have done so have ended up with vastly improved infrastructure as a result, despite the efforts of those dinosaurs to convince the politicians with scary horror stories of what bad and evil things will happen if they lose their monopoly in the marketplace and are exposed to actual competition!
The Internet doesn't need to bribe destitute people with settlements, because it's five orders of magnitude less expensive
Exactly - and the fix for this is to deal with national policy mismanagement rather than international. Once you have enough fibre into a country to allow competitive access to the market, the international pricing issues become line noise. Nick
Current thread:
- Re: De-funding the ITU, (continued)
- 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)