Waiting for the call
Access to the Internet is in great demand. How should it be priced?
RUN your eye down the national rankings of computers connected to the Internet and one thing stands out: the top nine countries in Internet links per 1,000 citizens are either English-speaking (the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) or Nordic (Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark). Could it be that, as President Chirac of France has come close to saying, the Internet is an Anglo-Saxon cultural plot?
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Waiting for the call”
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