Carr Meets African Regulators in Kenya, Discusses 5G, Digital Divide
5G, strengthening "our shared positions on global connectivity,” and ways to close the digital divide were on the agenda this week as FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr visited Kenya, meeting regulators from there, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sierra Leone,…
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he tweeted. Carr met engineers from a startup that’s “now the largest provider of free, public wi-fi in Sub-Saharan Africa,” he said. The trip included visits to schools and to a refugee center where IoT devices “monitor water lines, including chlorine levels, which is key to preventing cholera & other waterborne pathogens,” he wrote. Carr was to have left Kenya Thursday night.