Kenya: Surf Wants to Provide Cheap Wi-Fi Broadband for the "Average Consumer" in Places Where People Will Be Throughout the Day

London — Mark Summer and Kristin Peterson left Inveneo in September 2013 to set up a more commercially oriented version of what they had been doing: rolling out networks to unconnected communities and giving them access to communications. They started by offering the equivalent of an ISP in a box.

The last time I spoke to them in August 2014 they were working providing support and services for a new ISP in Gulu, Northern Uganda: http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/telecoms-en/31469/broadband-in-gulu-and-4g-in-accra-two-sides-of-the-same-coin-for-africas-new-generation-local-roll-outs

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