The issue of access should be seen as an issue of flexibility and ubiquity as opposed to an issue of regulation and revenue assignment … The access fees that are currently charged by the LECs reflect a worldview that is of a pre-divestiture nature and represent an attempt to continue to support the local user at the expense of the long-distance user … If one uses a wireless scheme or cable scheme, access fees should be eliminated and access should be subject to competitive market pricing and not monopolistic LEC pricing.
Predictor: McGarty, Terrence P.
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Internet Architectural and Policy Implications for Migration from High-End User to the ‘New User'” by Terrence P. McGarty and Carole Haywood. McGarty is chairman and CEO of The Telemarc Group, Inc. and Haywood is with RAM Mobile Data Inc. They write: ”The issue of access should be seen as an issue of flexibility and ubiquity as opposed to an issue of regulation and revenue assignment … The access fees that are currently charged by the LECs reflect a worldview that is of a pre-divestiture nature and represent an attempt to continue to support the local user at the expense of the long-distance user … If one uses a wireless scheme or cable scheme, access fees should be eliminated and access should be subject to competitive market pricing and not monopolistic LEC pricing.”
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: Internet Architectural and Policy Implications for Migration from High-End User to the ‘New User’
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 258
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne