[kictanet] End of Net Neutrality?

[Ali Hussein]

Bernard

We in Africa first need to acknowledge Net Neutrality as a concept. Today ONLY one country in Africa (Senegal) has even attempted to enact policy and regulation around it. We have ways to go. 

Kenya, with all our advances have turned a blind eye to it. We need to wake up. This list has consistently for the last 5 years talked about the need to address this issue from a policy and regulatory framework.

We have been met with utter silence. The first time this issue was mentioned was in the defunct/dead as a dodo/aborted ICT Policy 2016. And we know (or rather don’t know!) what happened to that document. 

My take? 

The free for all, do what you want and we (regulator and policy makers) will just watch helplessly coz after all Net Neutrality is a foreign concept. We don’t understand it. And neither are we bothered. Let the Googles, Facebooks and Netflixes of this world fight it out with their FCC. 

It doesn’t affect us..

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> On 15 Dec 2017, at 6:30 AM, Bernard Kioko via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-explainer/index.html
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> Interested to see thoughts on how this affects Kenya. I am thinking maybe hosting locally could avoid this, which would mean growth for local...
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