[kictanet] Universal Access?

[warigia bowman]

I vote for bushnetworking


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:00 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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