On 6/14/11, Crystal Watley Kigoni <crystal@voicesofafrica.org> wrote:
> @walu I have been shouting about this for years.
>
> But rather than expecting the big companies to do it, why don't we create
> the policy environment for community owned micro- ISPs? Create a mesh
> network that can actually bring increased income to the people who use it?
> As I always have said, Nairobi is not ALL of Kenya and we are leaving our
> villages behind.

Spot on madame!

Either we have a USF and accompanying regs, or we let people do
bush-networking on a small scale, using the Village
Telco/OpenBTS/AfriMesh/whatever they choose.


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Cheers,

McTim
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route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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