@ Hussein Infact this issue of bandwidth bundle came up at the recent EAIGF. BUt the operators was absent though ITRs were being discussed. How do we ascertain that we use the exact airtimet/bundle that we buy / subscribe for? Charles On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <isoc-request@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
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1. Re: EAIGF Final Programme July 17-18, 2012 (McTim) 2. How Safaricom Steals Your Internet Bundle (Grace Githaiga) 3. Re: How Safaricom Steals Your Internet Bundle (Ali Hussein)
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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:43:18 -0400 From: McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> To: Daniel Otieno Omondi <dottocomp@yahoo.com> Cc: "kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>, "isoc@lists.my.co.ke" <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [ISOC_KE] EAIGF Final Programme July 17-18, 2012 Message-ID: <CACAaNxg7YRQTCcZZOeF= p+G++ahVAnpEmpCdfuZs-U3CcJnQWg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Daniel Otieno Omondi <dottocomp@yahoo.com> wrote:
Grace and listers, that was a well organized programme and now to move on we need to give the ATU and ITU greater influence over internet governance
I could be wrong but I think the global ISOC position is that we do NOT want the ITU to have a more significant role in IG
as well as major
Telecoms issues such as accounting rates and termination charges for the next generation networks,data,privancy,cybersecurity,international mobile roaming and equipment specifications.
They already are the folks who decide about the above. The danger is that they will decide that double monetization is ok (even required), so yahoo/Google/Facebook/$content providers will have to pay to use the pipes that we as subscribers have already paid for!!
-- Cheers,
McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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Message: 2 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:29:24 +0000 From: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com> To: "kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>, <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: [ISOC_KE] How Safaricom Steals Your Internet Bundle Message-ID: <BAY151-W409A72C84120B63D7B2C22B4D80@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
99% of Kenya?s 6.5m internet users access it via mobile, of which Safaricom owns 77% marketshare.In Kenya, when you buy a 1.5Gb internet bundle from Safaricom you pay 1000ksh (~$12). You?ve paid for the data, and there is no additional cost to Safaricom if you were to use that data today or a year from now. The whole concept of data bundle expiry is ridiculous, as noted by Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore when he visited the iHub:?When you go into a petrol station and fill up your car, does the owner of the petrol station tell you to bring it back on Wednesday to take back what?s left in the vehicle? Of course not. So I ask, why the hell are we doing that?? Read onhttp:// whiteafrican.com/2012/07/18/how-safaricom-steals-your-internet-bundle/