Hello all,

I am no expert at this - but I have sympathy for people who sell bandwidth in an unlimited way (Zuku, JTL, Telkom ADSL e.t.c.). They have to figure a profitable way to share their upstream data capacity with their downstream customers - without affecting the expectation of individual customers. Large capacity services (Netflix, Dropbox e.t.c) can be a resource hog for them - “messing”  up bandwith plans.

Vendors who sell per MB rates - e.g. Safaricom, benefit increasingly as consumption increases, they should probably be paying for the bandwidth consuming applications that make them money.

Kip

A Cruce Salus


On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:18 AM, cdohnio via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

It's was only a matter of time before this argument came to our borders. I'd like to hear wat people on the list think about our networks charging companies for access when we already pay them for data bundles which means they'll be effectively charging twice for the same data

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Airtel has revived the debate calling for big Internet companies such as Google and Facebook to share revenue with Internet service providers.
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