<div dir="ltr">I vote for bushnetworking<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:00 PM, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 6/14/11, Crystal Watley Kigoni <<a href="mailto:crystal@voicesofafrica.org">crystal@voicesofafrica.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> @walu I have been shouting about this for years.<br>
><br>
> But rather than expecting the big companies to do it, why don't we create<br>
> the policy environment for community owned micro- ISPs? Create a mesh<br>
> network that can actually bring increased income to the people who use it?<br>
> As I always have said, Nairobi is not ALL of Kenya and we are leaving our<br>
> villages behind.<br>
<br>
</div>Spot on madame!<br>
<br>
Either we have a USF and accompanying regs, or we let people do<br>
bush-networking on a small scale, using the Village<br>
Telco/OpenBTS/AfriMesh/whatever they choose.<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
McTim<br>
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route indicates how we get there." �Jon Postel<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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