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58 Will Google and Meta Control Africa’s Broadband? with Andrew Blum and Carey Baraka

Reimagining the Internet

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What's the Consignment of a Cable in Africa?

Cables, generally speaking, have maintained a pretty high degree of neutrality. Free basix was a facebook project designed to provide free mobile phone data access in a number of developing countries. The idea was it was a reduced data plan. It wasn't going to let you go everywhere on the inner net. Andrew: Have we seen cases in which cables have become non neutral in this fashion?

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