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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Thanks Nanjira for this. Quite informative! I didn't realize this has been the journey. Wah!<div>Rgds</div><div>G<br><br><div>> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:06:49 +0300<br>> Subject: [kictanet] How Facebook Stumbled On Its Quest to Give Internet Away For Free<br>> From: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>> CC: nanjira@ihub.co.ke<br>> To: ggithaiga@hotmail.com<br>> <br>> For those still keen on this issue. Goes back to acquisitions of Snaptu and Onavo. Very interesting. <br>> <br>> Memorable quote: <br>> <br>> ""You cannot present a marketing strategy as an important public policy in a country. If it's going to be a market strategy, then do it as a market strategy and we can deal with that. But when you mix it with the public policies, it's a whole world that opens that is not good."<br>> <br>> What shall it be, for Kenya? Btw, technology neutrality is listed as a principle in the National Broadband Strategy...<br>> <br>> http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-facebooks-plan-to-give-the-world-free-mobile-internet-we#.kcxE7w225<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Regards, <br>> Nanjira.<br>> <br>> Sent from my iPhone.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> kictanet mailing list<br>> kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>> https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet<br>> <br>> Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ggithaiga%40hotmail.com<br>> <br>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.<br>> <br>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.<br></div></div> </div></body>
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