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Rousseff wants law to universalize broadband
By Pedro Ozores - Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff defended the idea of a bill to make broadband universalization legally binding in the country. But Rousseff, who is seeking reelection next month, rejected putting broadband in the "public regime" via a decree, as demanded by a group of consumer protection entities and civil society organizations gathered under the banner Banda Larga é um Direito Seu! (broadband is your right!), to avoid "legal challenges."
Rousseff's remarks were made at an event promoted by the broadband campaign groups in São Paulo. According to these groups, declaring broadband a public regime service would make it subject to universalization goals, as well as coverage regulation and charging/billing limitations, in the same way fixed telephony currently is.
Currently, broadband is provided purely under a private regime, while fixed telephony is under a public one.
The entities argue that article 18 of the country's general telecommunications law (LGT), approved in 1997 and which declared fixed telephony an essential public service, foresees the inclusion in the public regime, via a decree, of any telecoms service considered of "collective interest."
The campaign released a public letter to all presidential candidates with this and other broadband policy suggestions, and invited the main contenders to a public debate. To date, Rousseff is the only one to accept.
More:
http://www.bnamericas.com/news/telecommunications/rousseff-wants-law-to-universalize-broadband-rejects-decree
longship
(40,416 posts)I live in the USA and there is no broadband where I live. No cable TV, either. (Not that I would want it.) All there is here is dial-up and shitty cell network. I am posting this on my iPhone. 3 Gbyte per month download limit -- No YouTube for you!
It's text only for me because there are great expanses of the USA which have yet to cross over to the 21st century. And Obama promised a rural broadband initiative. Right!
Here in the Manistee National Forest, we are still waiting.
Judi Lynn
(160,503 posts)Just went to google images to see what Manistee National Forest is, and was thunderstruck. It is SO beautiful there. There are so many who would love to go there for peace and quiet, to re-orient, refocus, take a spiritual bath.
It looks wonderful.
Glad to read your post. Had no idea that was the situation in a lot of places in the U.S. It is a huge country, for sure.
Have a safe, comfortable winter!
Google images, Manistee National Forest:
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4TSND_enUS566US566&q=Manistee+National+Forest&gws_rd=ssl&tbm=isch