[kictanet] End of Net Neutrality?

[Bernard Kioko]

Thank you Ali.

Reading your response has got me wondering, as an industry which
organization/association do we use to lobby ?
On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 at 07:19, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

> 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:
>
>
> http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-explainer/index.html
>
> 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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