On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip
With all due respect to Vint, I think that it isn't now, but it will be. Regards Marshall
But I wonder to what degree that's dependent on how much our governments make Internet access the most practical/only practical way to interact with them.
Understand: I'm not saying that FiOS should be a human right. But as a society, America's recognized for decades that you gotta have a telephone, and subsidized local/lifeline service to that extent; that sort of subsidy applies to cellular phones now as well.
Thoughts?
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