<div dir="auto">If B4RN is government subsidised, then makes a good case for the Kenyan Government to subsidise CNs... after all we borrow a lot of legal structures from the Queen's land 😄</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 29, 2021, 10:19 AM Benson Muite via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 5/29/21 8:17 AM, Twahir Hussein Kassim wrote:<br>
> <br>
> @Benson Muite not really surprising, <br>
> it is the reality. That's not the only CN in the Global North, perhaps <br>
> England's B4RN <<a href="https://b4rn.org.uk/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://b4rn.org.uk/</a>>Â would shame the biggest telcos <br>
> across the globe.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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Guifi.net <<a href="https://guifi.net/en" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://guifi.net/en</a>> and Freifunk <br>
<<a href="https://www.freifunk.net/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.freifunk.net/</a>> are also interesting examples. Guifi.net <br>
seems to include larger institutions such as universities so can have <br>
experienced technical personnel running the network. Volunteers can help <br>
for last mile connectivity in established communities typically with a <br>
high population density. It seems that B4RN is government subsidized <br>
since costs in sparsely populated areas may be relatively high.<br>
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