http://lirneasia.net/2006/02/conditions-for-smart-subsidy-sucess/ a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank active across the Asia Pacific Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:22:55 +0530 hourly 1 http://lirneasia.net/2006/02/conditions-for-smart-subsidy-sucess/comment-page-1/#comment-3039 US about to be overtaken by Slovenia in broadband at LIRNEasia Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:59:34 +0000 http://www.lirneasia.net/2006/02/conditions-for-smart-subsidy-sucess/#comment-3039 [...] Former Chair of the FCC, Bill Kennard, calls for a broad national debate on how get more broadband connections, especially in rural America. One of his two recommendations is for the adoption of “reverse auctions” or least-cost subsidy auctions for the disbursement of US universal service funds. Another case of policy innovations in the developing world seeping back into the developed. See LIRNEasia’s extensive work on this subject, based on the Indian universal service fund and the least-cost subsidy auction in Nepal. [...] [...] Former Chair of the FCC, Bill Kennard, calls for a broad national debate on how get more broadband connections, especially in rural America. One of his two recommendations is for the adoption of “reverse auctions” or least-cost subsidy auctions for the disbursement of US universal service funds. Another case of policy innovations in the developing world seeping back into the developed. See LIRNEasia’s extensive work on this subject, based on the Indian universal service fund and the least-cost subsidy auction in Nepal. [...]

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