Re:Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of ...
by exacube on Saturday October 10, 2015 @03:53PM
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I don't know if this is practically true for a lot of these countries. In a lot of these countries, a vast majority of the population doesn't have easy education, and are often poor.
Countries like India have a much better percentage (but still small) of the population that can afford the internet, that ISPs are incentivized to grow and expand. Countries like Zambia -- not so much (I don't actually know if internet.org is in Zambia). I don't know that a small business in Zambia has the capital to expand considering how many people can afford it.
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Re:Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of ...
by sa1 on Saturday October 10, 2015 @04:22PM
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Interesting question.
Should foreign companies be allowed to create monopolies, because potential local competitors do not have enough capital currently?
I guess the obvious answer is no, but its still an interesting line of discussion.
Re:Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of ...
by sangnoir on Sunday October 11, 2015 @12:15AM
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>I don't know that a small business in Zambia has the capital to expand considering how many people can afford it.
The answer is yes. There is a Liquid Telecom[1] is laid lots of fibre in Zambia, with the intention of having fibre coverage from 'Cape to Cairo'1.http://liquidtelecom.com/news-events/news/263-liquid-telecom...