<div>As we anticipate the 'true broadband experience' with the landing of the international submarine fibre optic cables this isdefinitely<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> </span>a wake up call. </div>
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<div>Development of 'home grown' applications is therefore imperative to avoid the the folly/risk of depending on 'foreign' applications. <br></div>
<div>Kind regards </div>
<div>Mwende</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:20 AM, alice munyua <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alice@apc.org">alice@apc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> Shock threat to shut Skype by Asher Moses July 31, 2009 - 1:38PM<br><br>eBay says it may have to shut down Skype due to a licensing dispute with the founders of the internet telephony service.The surprise admission puts a cloud over the 40 million active daily users around the world who use Skype for business or to keep in touch with friends and far-flung relatives.A recent study by market researcher TeleGeography found Skype carried about 8 per cent of all international voice traffic, making it the world�s largest provider of cross-border voice communications.The online auction powerhouse bought Skype from entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis for $US2.6 billion in 2005, but this did not include a core piece of peer-to-peer communications technology that powers the software.<br>
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