Dear Kivuva, I agree with you absolutely. But what we need to keep in mind is that as we talk about content, this content need to flow freely over the Net - without any limitation or filtering due to some 'fine print' conditions in a service provider's contract with its user(s)! Regards and many thanks, Davis M Onsakia 'The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.' - Maureen Dowd ________________________________ From: lordmwesh <lordmwesh@gmail.com> To: Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com>; Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> Cc: Davis Onsakia <mautidavis@yahoo.com>; "isoc@lists.my.co.ke" <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 12:30 PM Subject: RE: [ISOC_KE] Network neutrality and the case of Kenya's Internet service providers Thank you Ali. I know you are very passionate about net neutrality and classical Internet Governance. Of course the operators and regulator should do the right thing. But besides all the discussion on real unlimited internet, why don't we have affordable unlimited internet? What is the background? Most of the time, we compare the cost with the West and the East. Why are they able to provide cheap unlimited internet? CONTENT! This is where we should focus our energy. If we prevent Internet traffic from getting outside our boarders, we will have hit the jackpot. Most of the time when we download data, mirrors will be either in the East or West, never within. The moment we will have our own hosted Dropbox, Gmail, Online gaming, social networks, e.t.c, we shall see real broadband at the speed of light for a fraction of what we get now, and this will save operators the huge amounts they pay for international traffic. Sent from my Nokia phone -----Original Message----- From: Ali Hussein Sent: 10/08/2013 3.49.06 pm To: Kivuva Cc: Davis Onsakia; isoc@lists.my.co.ke Subject: Re: [ISOC_KE] Network neutrality and the case of Kenya's Internet service providers