roundtable: Re: universal service and non profit amendments....

roundtable: Re: universal service and non profit amendments....

Re: universal service and non profit amendments....

Mary Gardiner Jones (mgjones@idi.net)
Sat, 26 Mar 1994 21:04:34 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 21:04:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Mary Gardiner Jones <mgjones@idi.net>
Subject: Re: universal service and non profit amendments....
To: roundtable@cni.org
In-Reply-To: <9403241928.AA25446@hohum.Stanford.EDU>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.85.9403262134.F1318-0100000@idi.net>


I think you are right on with your comments.  But I think we have to 
think about universal service to a highway which provides video in 
and video out. After all most citizens do not have computers and will 
not communiate as we are doing via typed messages. Consuemrs want 
services- two way visual communciations to communicate with family 
and friends, to "see" their health care professional on the box and 
have an "office" visit or to telecommute using video conferencing with 
their supervisors, fellow workers etc. So the Internet model so far as 
contrent is conerned is not a good model. Afterall the INtenet is only 
as good as my local last mile connection. Until that connection is 
broadband I can't enjoy any of thes truly interactive two way services.

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

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