[kictanet] Telkom Kenya cries foul over social media’s free ride on its - Corporate News

[Tony White]

Don't forget, the customer is charged for data both sent and received
- so where's the 'free ride'?

Tony


On 14/09/2016, awatila--- via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> a customer buys data to access internet based services.
>
> the telko has already been paid by the customer so Google et al do not have
> to pay an additional fee
>
>
> On 14 Sep 2016 07:16, Ali Hussein via kictanet
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>> Listers
>>
>> This is getting abit tiring..Telcos complaining social media platforms are
>> getting a free ride on their infrastructure.
>>
>> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Telkom-Kenya-cries-foul-over-social-media/539550-3379938-9liqm4/
>>
>> What are your thoughts? Should Telcos charge companies like Google and
>> Facebook for access to their networks?
>>
>> What would be next? A small fee for every website?
>>
>> #NetNeutrality
>>
>> Ali Hussein
>> Principal
>> Hussein & Associates
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>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>> "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking
>> what no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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Tony White