Universal Service, the Internet and the Access Deficit
This paper is concerned with the universal provision of telecommunications services. It is argued in this paper that universal service is no longer entirely driven by social inclusion imperatives, but is also increasingly driven by emerging governance imperatives. The focus of this paper is on Inter...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2004-06-01
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| Series: | SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society |
| Online Access: | http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/issue2/broadband.asp |
| Summary: | This paper is concerned with the universal provision of telecommunications services. It is argued in this paper that universal service is no longer entirely driven by social inclusion imperatives, but is also increasingly driven by emerging governance imperatives. The focus of this paper is on Internet access in general. The debate has moved on since the empirical work for this project was carried out and is more clearly focussed on access to broadband. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-2567 |