Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your opinion on our solution

Re:Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your op... by johnklos on Friday August 23, 2019 @04:44PM (#20782365)

Interesting, but buying in to the Google world requires a substantial amount of locking-in. Perhaps you should examine open source, open OSes and not OSes designed to funnel data to large for-profit companies.

"Studets" should have an "n" ;) (https://giveinternet.org/en/our-work/projects)

What kind of work is going on to provide alternative methods of Internet delivery, be they sharing from other parts of communities, buying Internet in bulk, working with ISPs to get discounted pricing, et cetera?

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Re:Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your op... by jibla on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:09PM (#20782594)

Thanks for your feedback. Agree, we are considering open-source OS's as well. We are at an early stage and Chromebooks were fast and cheap solutions to start with. But will take your comment into consideration.

We work with the incumbent operators and smaller Wifi providers. They offer free installations for our families and in some areas discounts on a monthly fee. Btw we thought we were solving the affordability problem, but it turned out some local Wifi operators are willing to deploy infrastructure in areas where they considered not profitable before. As part of our partnership in September, they launch a new base station in a rural area of Georgia and we are excited about it.

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Re:Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your op... by UncleSam on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:38PM (#20782890)

"Stundents" -> "Students"

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Re:Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your op... by mycall on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:04AM (#20785538)

Amazing Google still has 6,160,000,000 hits for the prior. IMHO, it is a new word due to large typos.

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Re:Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your op... by easytiger on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:19PM (#20801063)

Google's search results are pretty meaningless these days due to changes in presentation of results and inference of intent

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