Idea of public involvement progressing

One of the strange side effects of the current financial crisis is that the once taboo idea of public financing in telecoms is no longer taboo. I'm preparing a thought piece I will probably post over the week-end on this, but in the meantime, and without any concertation, my colleague Vince Vittore writes this very interesting piece in Telephony Online entitled Know Your Rights. It's not saying anything new, but it's saying it loud and clear in a country that's been deaf to such suggestions for decades and in a media (Telephony Online) that itself has (to their credit) recently shifted its position on that particular topic.