Thanks Ali.<div>CA has no position on this. Although I am not authorised to speak on their behalf :)</div><div><br></div><div>Look, this is a classical Net Neutrality violation. "Treating all traffic equally". What happens to competitors of Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia ? This is a sure way of killing competition. Airtel has a service Where you can access Facebook for free. Same as Orange with Wikipedia some years back. The data carrier is paid by the content provider to give preferential treatment to their traffic.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, if I'm seated in one of the innovation hubs in Kenya, say C4DLAB, and I have a new startup competing in the same space as Twitter or Facebook, how will I compete in such a skewed environment?</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Wednesday, 25 March 2015, Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Listers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Interesting discussion going on about zero rating certain services within a walled Facebook/Google garden. I think some telcos are running campaigns where after your internet bundles are exhausted you can still use Facebook or Google Apps.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:23px"><span style="line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">For more:-</span><br></p></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/24/us-africa-internet-idUSKBN0MK10F20150324" target="_blank">http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/24/us-africa-internet-idUSKBN0MK10F20150324</a></span><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">It's easy to applaud search measures to offer 'free' connectivity. However some markets have already outlawed such practices as anti-competitive and designed to lure users to certain services at the detriment of others who don't have the deep pockets of the Multi-Nationals.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">It's all about eyeballs. which drive advertising.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">What's the CA's position on this practice?</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Ali
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