[kictanet] Global Internet: Greg Wyler May Beat Elon Musk, Google, Facebook - Bloomberg

[Ali Hussein]

Tony

Indeed. The new investment story is what led me to this particular two year
old story which is still relevant today. I was hoping to demonstrate a new
mantra in business:-

Doing well by doing good.
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Worth a read and a thought. Too often we in business and government have
lost our way by chasing the profit motive and power simply for the sake of
it.

If the three core cogs of society - Public, Private and Civic work for the
better good of society we would solve lots of Global Problems. That's why
we members of KICTANet can inform a lot on how we can get things done
better and without any vested interests. Most of the people on this list
will never meet in their lifetime yet the ideas we share among each other,
agree, agree to disagree in a civil manner is something we hope the world
will emulate.

And that's why Greg Wyler is my Hero for this December.

One thing that caught my eye in this article was how the technology his
company is building is already reducing internet costs by 90%!! Now that's
huge. He's not only saying that Internet Access is a human right but he's
doing something about it!

Happy Holidays to you all!

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On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Tony White via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Ali,
>
> This is an interesting in-depth article - but it's almost 2 years old!
>
> Just this week, however, Softbank (the Japanese company who just
> bought UK's ARM for 32 billion USD (the designers of most of the CPU
> chips in phones and embedded devices)) announced an investment of over
> 1 billion USD in Wyler's company:
>
> http://spacenews.com/oneweb-gets-1-2-billion-in-softbank-led-investment/
>
> Things are on track.  Can't wait :)
>
> Cheers,
> Tony
>
>
> On 22/12/2016, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> wrote:
> > Listers
> >
> > Super interesting story about how one man is probably close to
> succeeding in
> > building a Global Internet Service Provider. Interestingly enough he
> comes
> > from the premise that Connectivity is a Human Right and is largely
> > responsible for helping Rwanda connect most of the country via Fibre.
> >
> > In tech-conference speak, what Wyler’s been doing for the past dozen
> years
> > is connecting “the other 3 billion.” This is the half of the world’s
> > population that for various reasons is not online. Companies such as
> Google
> > and Facebook have received a lot of attention for their philanthropic
> plans
> > to bring the Internet to the developing world. Mark Zuckerberg, for
> example,
> > invited Time to follow him around rural India for a story about his
> > evolution as a philanthropist and business leader, though he provided few
> > specifics on what Facebook intends to do for India’s poor. And Elon
> Musk—he
> > of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and the Hyperloop—has received a wave of press,
> and
> > $1 billion in capital from Google and Fidelity—after unveiling his own
> space
> > Internet plan.
> >
> > Read on:-
> >
> > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-01-22/the-
> new-space-race-one-man-s-mission-to-build-a-galactic-internet-i58i2dp6
> >
> >
> > Ali Hussein
> > Principal
> > Hussein & Associates
> > +254 0713 601113
> >
> > Twitter: @AliHKassim
> > Skype: abu-jomo
> > LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
> >
> >
> > "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking
> what
> > no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
>
>
> --
> Tony White
>
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