roundtable: Re: Education-Library Coaltion Action Alert

roundtable: Re: Education/Library Coaltion Action Alert

Re: Education/Library Coaltion Action Alert

Mary Gardiner Jones (mgjones@apt.org)
Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:13:11 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:13:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Mary Gardiner Jones <mgjones@apt.org>
Subject: Re: Education/Library Coaltion Action Alert
To: roundtable@cni.org
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I really think this is a very imnportant proposal. Everyone talks about 
how we are going to pay for the network and few come up with ideas of how 
it can in fact realistically be financed out of telephone funds which 
after all represent our rate payments. Since I firmly believe that these 
networks must link up homes as well as community institutions I would 
like to see the proposal include this concept as well if for nothing more 
that a long range  strategy of how we achieve universal service. Clearly 
once educational and library institutions are linked it will not be very 
much more costly to move next to link up the homes. The cable will be 
largely laid. INcidentally when we talk about linking we must be sure 
that we are clear that we are talking about networks capable of 
transmitting two way switched video as well as data. I would like to see 
the statement and see if the Alliance wants to sign on as well.

Mary Gardiner Jones
Alliance for Public Technology (APT)	|   Internet:	mgjones@apt.org

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