Universal Service

Universal Service

Author: Milton Mueller

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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The Case for Universal Basic Services

The Case for Universal Basic Services

Author: Anna Coote

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-02-13

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1509539840

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The idea that healthcare and education should be provided as universal public services to all who need them is widely accepted. But why leave it there? Why not expand it to more of life’s essentials? In their bold new book, Anna Coote and Andrew Percy argue that this transformational new policy – Universal Basic Services – is exactly what we need to save our societies and our planet. The old argument that free markets and individual choice are the best way to solve pressing problems of poverty, inequality and environmental degradation has led us to catastrophe, and must be abandoned. The authors show that expanding the principle of collective universal service provision to everyday essentials like transport, childcare and housing is not only the best way of tackling many of the biggest problems facing the contemporary world: it’s also efficient, practical and affordable. Anyone who cares about fighting for a fairer, greener and more democratic world should read this book.


Universal Service

Universal Service

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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The Universal Service Desk (USD)

The Universal Service Desk (USD)

Author: Brian Johnson

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Published: 2020-05-28

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 178778150X

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The Universal Service Desk (USD) – Implementing, controlling and improving service delivery defines what a USD is, why it is valuable to an organisation and how to build and implement one. It also discusses the evolution of the USD as part of integrated workplace management.


Universal and Accessible Design for Products, Services, and Processes

Universal and Accessible Design for Products, Services, and Processes

Author: Robert F. Erlandson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2007-08-03

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1040062849

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New laws, global competition, technological advances, and evolving societal values toward disability all demand the integration of universal and accessible design principles into the general practice of the design community. This growing international movement forces competitors to expand their traditional concepts of design and adopt these princip


Who Pays for Universal Service?

Who Pays for Universal Service?

Author: Robert W. Crandall

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780815719724

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In virtually every country, the price of residential access to the telephone network is kept low and cross-subsidized by business services, long distance calling, and various other telephone services. This pricing practice is widely defended as necessary to promote "universal service," but Crandall and Waverman show that it has little effect on telephone subscriptions while it has major harmful effects on the value of all telephone service. The higher prices for long distance calls reduce calling, shift the burden of paying for the network to those whose social networks are widely dispersed. Therefore, many poor and rural households--the intended beneficiaries of the pricing strategy--are forced to pay far more for telephone service than they would if prices reflected the cost of service. Despite these burdens, Congress has extended the subsidies to advanced services for schools, libraries, and rural health facilities. Crandall and Waverman show that other regulated utilities are not burdened with similarly inefficient cross-subsidy schemes, yet universality of water, natural gas, and electricity service is achieved. As local telephone service competition develops in the wake of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the universal-service subsidy system will have to change. Subsidies will have to be paid from taxes on telecom services and paid directly to carriers or subscribers. Crandall and Waverman show that an intrastate tax designed to pay for each state's subsidized subscriptions is far less costly to the economy than an interstate tax. Robert W. Crandall is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Leonard Waverman is a visiting professor at the London Business School, on leave from the University of Toronto. They are coauthors of Talk Is Cheap: The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications (Brookings, 1995).


FCC Record

FCC Record

Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 1010

ISBN-13:

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Effective Universal Instruction

Effective Universal Instruction

Author: Kimberly Gibbons

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2018-12-04

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1462536832

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This accessible volume helps school leadership teams accomplish the crucial yet often overlooked task of improving universal instruction--Tier 1 within a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS). Strong universal instruction reduces the numbers of PreK–12 students who may need additional services and supports. Providing clear action steps and encouraging guidance, the expert authors present a roadmap for evaluating the effectiveness of Tier 1, identifying barriers to successful implementation, and making and sustaining instructional improvements. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 27 reproducible checklists, worksheets, and forms. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.