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Today's Topics:
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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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:43:18 -0400
From: McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Otieno Omondi <dottocomp@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [ISOC_KE] EAIGF Final Programme July 17-18, 2012
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Daniel Otieno Omondi
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> 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!!
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Cheers,
McTim
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route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:29:24 +0000
From: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com>
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Subject: [ISOC_KE] How Safaricom Steals Your Internet Bundle
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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/
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 08:38:10 +0300
From: Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke>
To: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [ISOC_KE] How Safaricom Steals Your Internet Bundle
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Grace
The question is: What is the regulator doing about this?
Ali Hussein
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> 99% of Kenya?s 6.5m <http://cck.go.ke/news/2012/Mobile_Subscribers.html> 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 on
>
> http://whiteafrican.com/2012/07/18/how-safaricom-steals-your-internet-bundle/
>
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