BUILDING A NATIONAL INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY

BUILDING A NATIONAL INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY As it is meant to be, national highways are supposed to be free. We paid our taxes, and the government built the national highways using the funds derived from our taxes, as appropriated by Congress. The equation changed when tollways came along. Even though we already paid our taxes with the expectation that the government would build national highways that we could use for free, we now must pay additional fees to the tollway operators, as if we are paying taxes all over again. My idea of a National Information Super Highway (NISH) is like the free national highways. The government should build it, and everyone could use it for free, including the telecom carriers, in the same way that bus operators could use the national highways for free. Of course, there should be a condition that since the telecom carriers are using it for free, their prices should be affordable for everybody, just like the bus fares. I welcome the news that the DICT will be building a National Fiber Backbone (NFB) project. I do not know the details about it yet, but I hope that it will be available for the free use of the telecom carriers, on the condition of course that they will use it to make our internet connectivity faster, but also cheaper. I also hope that they will not convert it into a tollway, such that we must pay again. IKE SENERES/6-11-24