Re: Residential subsidy?

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>And aren't most schools charged as *businesses* and not as residential?

Our libraries are charged as businesses. So the library's Internet
access costs about $19 a month, but the phone charge is in the hundreds
of dollars. I'd suggest a special "library rate", but our main
precedent for that, the Post Office Library Rate, has been eliminated
so I don't have a lot of hope for it.

I, too, am quite skeptical when telcos offer to connect up schools and
libraries and offer startup "freebies." I assume that further down the
line they'll be charging these same institutions premium rates, and
they know that once an institution has provided a service it's very
hard to eliminate it because that brings a real public outcry. This is
dope-dealer market logic, and it works.

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Karen Coyle <kec@stubbs.ucop.edu>
University of California - Library Automation
http://www.dla.ucop.edu/~kec

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