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Bill: Phone Prices Deregulation
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Populists
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2100
Description[?]:
| We see no need to regulate the phone industry, especially because it is failing -- we have no rural phone service. We believe by freeing phone companies to charge different rates, they may bring this seeming essential service more widely. However, we continue, and adamantly, to support subsidies for low-income people. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families, and regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Current: There are no regulations on phone service.
Proposed: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families but does not regulate the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:26:47, August 23, 2005 CET | From | Ecotopian Party | To | Debating the Phone Prices Deregulation |
| Message | As we are desperately in need of telecommunications infrastructure, and the only alternative appears to be for the Government to foot the entire bill, we reluctantly agree to telecommunications deregulation. My preference would be to have a telecommunications monopoly, where fees are standardised across the country, but, regrettably, that option does not exist. |
| Date | 05:43:27, August 23, 2005 CET | From | Free Populists | To | Debating the Phone Prices Deregulation |
| Message | It is, given our current disastrous telecommunications situation, our only reasonable option. The status quo is certainly not. |
| Date | 09:28:48, August 23, 2005 CET | From | Neo Fascist Revolution | To | Debating the Phone Prices Deregulation |
| Message | We support this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 399 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 302 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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