Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet

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• Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  More white people exploiting Africa

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  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    tradition as old as time

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Remember when millionaire weirdos would brag about setting up internet access in random towns just to put people on their preferred cryptocurrency? They called it “banking the unbanked,” but we all know what it was really code for.

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Seems to be quite the recurring theme

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I hope they maintain their freedom from these evil Zionist billionaires. I think the entire world is being colonized by Israel at this point America certainly has been for a long time. Most American wealth has been funneled to Israel and the Zionist oligarchs. America just bought them a new fleet of fighter jets and we pay for their universal healthcare, fee college and a $400 monthly payment per child.

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What is the alternative to existing giant companies investing in the infrastructure? And why hasn’t that alternative already addressed this issue before the tech companies arrived?

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  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There are some really cool community owned WISP and mesh networks set ups in areas doing green fields tbh. As well as open source 5g networks (which for parts of Africa is cool because they have some pretty advanced SMS based services).

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So WISPs and 5G networks address “last mile” access. According to the article Google and Facebook are building undersea cables which don’t compete with last mile services, and in fact can help them as the existing backhaul circuits become saturated from continued new WISP and 5G users being added.

      I think its fantastic that there are community built efforts to bring people online. However, it sounds like these are small pockets of efforts instead of national or continental efforts. If the WISPs or 5G service area are only in pockets, is it fair that millions of people should go without access to the internet just because they don’t live in one of the areas served by those existing community efforts?

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• SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thomas Sankara would like to know your location

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