Hotspots
Subsidy of the Internet
Internet has attributes of both public and private good
What is a public good?
The case for government intervention
Public goods under-funded
Potentially could be controlled by oligopoly of corporations (as predicted
by CPSR)
Requires subsidy to enable universal access (similar to rural
electrification efforts and telephone wiring)
Subsidy of the Internet:
Nature and level of intervention
Estimation of social value
Estimation of externalities to Internet use
Strategies:
User subsidies
Direct public funding
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