[LINK] Would making the internet "Sender pays" help?

[Kim Holburn]

Would making the internet "Sender pays" help, you know, stop spam and stuff?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/sender-pays-rule-doesnt-necessarily-increase-telecom-investment/

> Of course, correlation is not causation. The observed correlation could be based on other factors, such as a country's average income or its region of the world. But Dourado found that even after controlling for these factors, there was an inverse correlation between long-distance billing rates and telecommunications development. In short, when you give a telecommunications firm more money, there's no guarantee it will invest the cash in improving its network.


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> Yet even after making these adjustments, the correlations were still negative. The more expensive it was to make long distance calls to a nation, the more slowly its telecommunications sector developed.



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