International access through cooperating networks in other countries is a huge advantage for Americans seeking to compete and collaborate around the world. If international telephony rates were charged end-users, this access would be severely restricted.
Predictor: Branscomb, Lewis M.
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Balancing the Commercial and Public-Interest Visions of the NII” by Lewis Branscomb, director of the Program on Science, Technology and Public Policy at Harvard University and principal investigator of the Information Infrastructure Project. Branscomb writes:: ”Maintaining distance-independent pricing: International access through cooperating networks in other countries is a huge advantage for Americans seeking to compete and collaborate around the world. If international telephony rates were charged end-users, this access would be severely restricted.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Cost/Pricing
Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Balancing the Commercial and Public-Interest Visions of the NII
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 29, 30
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne