[kictanet] Universal Access?

[warigia bowman]

I think the study was in 2004

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Francis Hook <francis.hook at gmail.com>wrote:

> Abt 2 years ago CCK tendered  for a Universal Access study and I
> believe it covered some of the issues like having a GIS driven system
> to assess all sorts of infrastructure (elec, post offices, GSM, fixed
> networks, fibre etc).   Also to define what parameters (and which
> organ) would be used to disurse the funds.
>
> Did this study take off? Anyone on the list from CCK who can enlighten us?
>
>
> On 14/06/2011, warigia bowman <warigia at aucegypt.edu> wrote:
> > 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
> >> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> >> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
> >>
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