[kictanet] Safaricom partners with KPLC to expand its data footprint

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 14:52:34 EAT 2010


Hi Harry,

This does seem to be one way forward for Africa, We already have many
1000s of kms of fiber on power lines largely unused across the
continent.

However, I am curious as to why it was not done in an Open Access
manner?  What am I missing here?

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel


On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Harry Hare
<harry at africanedevelopment.org> wrote:
> This is a very interesting development, bringing to fore the potential that
> KPLC have as a game changer with its fiber.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ybbhsmn
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> Harry
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