An excellent article in the Scotsman today about mail and telecoms in iScotland.
Basically if you get a yes vote things will be get very expensive, very quickly.
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Much-sainted Norway has the highest postal charges in the world, because of low population density. Scotland could soon, in this respect at least, be more like Norway. Super. And the same with telecoms. With a separate regulatory system, BT customers in England would be spared the requirement to subsidise people like me who live in inconvenient places. In fact, any service which currently offers flat rate charging across the UK would be replaced by Scotland-only charges reflecting the actual cost of living in a large landmass with only five million people. Expensive things, borders
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Anyone who uses Internet shopping a lot or lives a bit out the way should be very worried. Would iScotland Mail or iScotland Telecoms be able to offer a universal service at a reasonable cost in such a sparsely populated country?
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/brian-w...ence-1-3533078