<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Mwendwa<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for sharing. Maybe that’s what we need to do for the Universal Access Fund..</div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks & Regards<br class=""><br class="">Ali Hussein<br class=""><a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" class="">ali@hussein.me.ke</a><br class=""><br class="">+254 713 601113<br class="">Twitter: @AliHKassim</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Skype: Abu-Jomo</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">LinkedIn: http//<a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" class="">ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a><br class="">Blog: <a href="http://www.alyhussein.com" class="">www.alyhussein.com</a><br class=""></div></div>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 10, 2016, at 7:03 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Here are the sort of policy interventions developed countries are making to take affordable Internet to the masses.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">The Federal Communications Commission released a plan Tuesday to overhaul its low-income subsidy program Lifeline to include broadband internet, marking a new effort to close the digital divide for the millions of Americans who still don’t have a home internet connection.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">The proposal calls for a $9.25 monthly subsidy for broadband services, the first extension into internet for Lifeline, a $1.5 billion program created in 1985 subsidizing telephone services for low-income Americans that was last updated in 2005 to cover mobile phones.</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fcc-is-finalizing-its-broadband-plan-to-subsidize-internet-for-the-poor?utm_source=mbtwitter" class="">http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fcc-is-finalizing-its-broadband-plan-to-subsidize-internet-for-the-poor?utm_source=mbtwitter</a></p>
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