Facebook takes on Telcos with affordable Internet in Nairobi
Listers The other day someone posted this story on the list. Here's more details on this:- Surf Internet partners with Facebook to offer affordable Internet <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/Facebook-takes-on-telcos-with-low-cost-Internet-in-Nairobi/539550-3839636-ask1wt/index.html> Here's an interesting way for Facebook to spread the love.. Regards *Ali Hussein* *Principal* *Hussein & Associates* Tel: +254 713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim> 13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing, Chiromo Road, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya. Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with.
Alex No, that's Free Basics. Which is a different product. https://info.internet.org/en/story/free-basics-from-internet-org/ Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle Sent from my iPad
On 7 Mar 2017, at 7:54 AM, alex watila via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
my understanding was that the connectivity provided is only to access Facebook
On 7 Mar 2017 07:29, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: Listers
The other day someone posted this story on the list. Here's more details on this:-
Surf Internet partners with Facebook to offer affordable Internet
Here's an interesting way for Facebook to spread the love..
Regards
Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates
Tel: +254 713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing, Chiromo Road, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Is no one worried about one company being too present in many aspects of our Internet experience? If Facebook wifi becomes a big success, shall we be in the same dominance debates we are in at the moment? On 7 Mar 2017 12:59 a.m., "Ali Hussein via isoc" <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Alex
No, that's Free Basics. Which is a different product.
https://info.internet.org/en/story/free-basics-from-internet-org/
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Sent from my iPad
On 7 Mar 2017, at 7:54 AM, alex watila via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
my understanding was that the connectivity provided is only to access Facebook
On 7 Mar 2017 07:29, Ali Hussein via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers
The other day someone posted this story on the list. Here's more details on this:-
Surf Internet partners with Facebook to offer affordable Internet <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/Facebook-takes-on-telcos-with-low-cost-Internet-in-Nairobi/539550-3839636-ask1wt/index.html>
Here's an interesting way for Facebook to spread the love..
Regards
*Ali Hussein*
*Principal*
*Hussein & Associates*
Tel: +254 713 601113
Twitter: @AliHKassim
Skype: abu-jomo
LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim>
13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing,
Chiromo Road, Westlands,
Nairobi, Kenya.
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Grace I think Zuckerberg put it well when he said (albeit almost seven years ago) that people really don't expect privacy anymore.. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-privacy I'm afraid that bird already flew the coop long time ago... The million dollar question now is how do we take our privacy back..wittingly in unwittingly we gave it away long time ago.. Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle Sent from my iPad
On 7 Mar 2017, at 1:40 PM, Grace B via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Is no one worried about one company being too present in many aspects of our Internet experience? If Facebook wifi becomes a big success, shall we be in the same dominance debates we are in at the moment?
On 7 Mar 2017 12:59 a.m., "Ali Hussein via isoc" <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> wrote: Alex
No, that's Free Basics. Which is a different product.
https://info.internet.org/en/story/free-basics-from-internet-org/
Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113
Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle
Sent from my iPad
On 7 Mar 2017, at 7:54 AM, alex watila via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
my understanding was that the connectivity provided is only to access Facebook
On 7 Mar 2017 07:29, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: Listers
The other day someone posted this story on the list. Here's more details on this:-
Surf Internet partners with Facebook to offer affordable Internet
Here's an interesting way for Facebook to spread the love..
Regards
Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates
Tel: +254 713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing, Chiromo Road, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya.
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