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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1263)	3/7/2000 1:18:00 PM
From: GHowe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1782

Frank, Gordon Cook (Cook Report) has done some work on this, although our conversations on it have merely topical. You may want to give him a call if you'd like some starting points. If you go down that long, dark stretch, please let me know. I may want to join you. GHowe

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1263)	3/7/2000 1:34:00 PM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1782

"It's a multi-dimensional question, and the answer will vary with each user, from many different perspectives. Would you care to provide a more structured framework for this problem?" Frank, Thanks for the response. I also found the initial part of your response on the access vs. bandwidth question very interesting. I was unaware of how that had been written in to grants. I think what may be the relevant perspective from a political standpoint is the issue of access at a specified bandwidth. I can see how this will be a hot political issue. The whole issue of voting on the Internet has been reduced to a racial issue in some political debates. That is, the current demographics show that whites may be over represented in elections if elections are conducted over the Internet instead of polling places. You can see how these political arguments might be extended to debate how much information should be delivered and a what rate to schools and private residences. This is pretty amazing considering that when I was a kid, it was rare to find a family with an encyclopedia in my neighborhood. On your question of a framework for what the home requires in terms of bandwidth, you actually hit on exactly what I was thinking about. I know how electricity, water, and gas are billed to users only in the vaguest of terms. I heard a presentation on how the billing structure for electricity shifts much of he cost to commercial users. I tried to follow this a little further and found a hierarchy of residential and commercial fees depending largely of consumption and peak versus off hours use. The main difference is that since these other resources don't contain information, nobody is suggesting that they should be free or not taxed. I have previously posted on CLEC software that is set up to bill various levels of voice and data services. Trying to figure out how that matrix gets affected by political trends and the decreasing fees for large bandwidth services might be place to start. George