[Myrddin]

If IBM moves their call centers overseas, is the U.S. going to assess a tariff on every toll-free call to a call center in India?

A tariff of 10 cents per minute on satellite serviced voice calls would immediately level the playing field. It would probably also offset any current subsidy of telecommunications that is coming from the U.S. taxpayer. Few of the rockets that put the satellites into orbit were privately financed by the companies that now exploit them.

[Alberta's Child]

A tariff of 10 cents per minute on satellite serviced voice calls would immediately level the playing field.

Do you really believe that any government would be capable of actually collecting such a tariff?

It would probably also offset any current subsidy of telecommunications that is coming from the U.S. taxpayer.

As if the U.S. is the only country in the world that has launched telecommunications satellites into orbit . . .