[kictanet] Universal Access?

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 13:00:17 EAT 2011


On 6/14/11, Crystal Watley Kigoni <crystal at voicesofafrica.org> wrote:
> @walu I have been shouting about this for years.
>
> But rather than expecting the big companies to do it, why don't we create
> the policy environment for community owned micro- ISPs? Create a mesh
> network that can actually bring increased income to the people who use it?
> As I always have said, Nairobi is not ALL of Kenya and we are leaving our
> villages behind.

Spot on madame!

Either we have a USF and accompanying regs, or we let people do
bush-networking on a small scale, using the Village
Telco/OpenBTS/AfriMesh/whatever they choose.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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