>And yes it is very affordable - especially to ISPs, should not be a problem at all for them to provide completely gratis universal access. The ISPs wouldn't b

>And yes it is very affordable - especially to ISPs, should not be a problem at all for them to provide completely gratis universal access. The ISPs wouldn't be so well off once you make their main product free. Investment in network infrastructure would go to zero in this system. They would all go bankrupt pretty quickly actually. The only way to keep the internet running with a mandate to offer it free would be to nationalize it. And once it's nationalized, forget about improvements to the network or new generations of mobile internet tech. Internet costs <$50 a month. You want to effectively nationalize an entire industry because that's too expensive in your opinion.