"Although the average price of 1 Mbps leased line bandwidth of Ksh 364,317 to the customers appears to be lower than the Ksh 403,032 that ISPs pay to the IBGOs, data shows that for every 1 Mb/s purchased from the IBGO, the ISPs connect about 6 customers using 1 Mb/s links. That is, there is a ratio of at least 1 to 6 between bandwidth purchased and bandwidth sold." <http://www.cck.go.ke/internet_tariffs_affordability/>
At these figures, rural internet cannot "make a business case" therefore there exists a serious need to re-think rural connectivity.
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*Event: *The African Satellite & Wireless Broadband Conference (SatWiBB
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*Location: *Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi**
*Dates: * 1-8 June 2007 (Exhibition 5-7 June)
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*Description: *
Satellites still provide a communications lifeline for a large
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This convergence event brings together the latest in wireless network
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And a three-day specialised exhibition that is part of the event will
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* Wireless Cities Masterclass, by Paul Munnery, head of Wireless
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* An interactive workshop for corporate users, will provide a
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The wide-ranging event programme will be as follows:
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Masterclass: Wireless Security Strategies
African CDMA Showcase
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When VeriSign renegotiated its domain contacts for .com and .net, many
feared
the company would begin raising rates. It appears as if some of those fears are
being realized.
The company said later Thursday that it would raise the fees for .com domains
to $6.42 from $6, a 7 percent increase, and from $3.50 to $3.85 for .net
domains, a 10 percent increase. The changes would take effect on October 15.
...
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I
am pleased to forward you an electronic copy of the newhttp://www.uneca.org/era2007/ ,
along with some updated information.
The
report was officially launched on 3rd April 2007 at the headquarters of the UN
Economic Commission for Africa in Addis
Ababa , Ethiopia .
If
you have any questions please contact me.
Regards
J.Max
Bankole Jarrett
OIC, Information and Communication Service
Office of the Executive Secretary
Economic Commission for Africa
00 2511 1 5 516294
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Domains Explained, Part 1: Registrants, Registries, Registrars and Resellersby Joey deVilla on Fri 30 Mar 2007 03:49 PM EDT | Permanent Link
In Monday's article -- Questions to Ask Before You Pick Your Domain Name Registrar -- Elliot
covered a lot of ground in his list of things you should know about
when picking a domain name registrar. In this series of articles, I'll
expand on what he wrote and explain some of the finer points of domain
names that you might not be aware of.
Registrants, Registries, Registrars and ResellersThe last question in Elliot's list was Are you a registrar or a reseller? If these terms, along with registry and registrant are unfamiliar to you, read on -- I'm going to explain what each one means.
Let me begin with the diagram below. It provides a brief description of each of these terms...
RegistrantRegistryRegistrarReseller...and also illustrates the relationships among them. I'll explain each of these terms in greater detail after the diagram:
RegistrantThe registrant
is the easiest one to explain. The registrant for a domain name is the
person or organization who registered and owns the domain name. If
you've ever registered a domain name, you're its registrant.
RegistryBefore I can talk about registries, I need to talk about top-level domains first. A top-level domain -- often shortened to TLD -- is the last part of any domain name. You're probably familiar with the generic TLDs .com, .org and .net and country code TLDs such as .ca, .de, .eu and .jp.
Each top-level domain is managed by an organization called a registry, which is responsible for:
Managing the domain names within its assigned top-level domain.Maintaining
the WHOIS database for that domain, which stores information on each
domain name in the top-level domain, such as the domain's registrant,
registrar and expiry date.Maintaining the root servers for
that top-level domain, which act as an "address book" for all
nameservers responsible for the top-level domain. I'll cover root
servers and other parts of the domain name system in a later article.RegistrarIn order to keep the domain name system working and stable, only organizations accredited by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,
one of whose jobs is to manage the assignment of domain names and IP
addresses) can register domain names. If you're curious about what sort
of process an organization has to go through to become an accredited
registrar, ICANN has a page that describes it in detail.
There
are a few hundred ICANN-accredited registrars worldwide; Tucows is just
of them. One way for you to register a domain name is to select one of
these registrars, who will electronically make the appropriate
arrangements with the registry and activate your domain name.
There's another way for you to register a domain name: through a reseller.
ResellerIn
the previous section, I mentioned that Tucows is a registrar. However,
we're a little unusual. We don't directly register domain names on
behalf of registrants. Instead, we sell our capability to register
domain names to other companies, who then resell this capability to
registrants. Hence the name reseller.
You're probably wondering why you'd want to go through a reseller rather than a registrar. Two very important reasons are:
Most of the time, you don't buy just a domain name by itself.
You also buy services that the domain name points to, such as a
website, a blog, email mailboxes and so on. A good reseller will often
offer package deals or bundles comprising what they feel are the best
services, just as a good retail store will carry a selection of what
they feel are the best brands.Customer service.
By reselling our domain name registration service, a reseller can spend
less time worrying about the technical and regulatory issues that
registrars face and spend more time on what's really important: their
customers.One thing to keep in mind when registering
domain names through a reseller: they're bound by the policies of the
registrar whose services they resell. Make sure you know which
registrar your reseller uses and what their domain name policies are.
Rebecca Wanjiku,
journalist,
p.o box 33515,
Nairobi.00600
Kenya.
Tel. 254 720 318 925
blog:http://beckyit.blogspot.com/
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Thousands of Voices Get Direct Say At ICANN
29 March 2007
Internet
users from three of ICANN's five global regions will now have direct
input to the organization thanks to the creation of three Regional
At-Large Organisations (RALOs).
Memorandums of Understanding
creating RALOs for Africa and Europe were signed today by ICANN and
member groups of the RALOs in a special ceremony at ICANN's 28th Public
Meeting in Lisbon. The third RALO — Asia-Australia-Pacific — was
announced and will be formally signed at the 30th Public Meeting to be
held later this year.
“This is a fantastic day for Internet users
in Africa, in Europe, and in the Asia-Australia-Pacific region. The
creation of RALOs gives average Internet users the chance to influence
decisions that shape the security and stability of the Internet,” said
Dr Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN.
The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) of ICANN represents Internet users in ICANN.
"ICANN
deals with issues that are technical but hugely important to Internet
users. At-Large is the place to be if you want to participate — and
RALOs provide direct input to us," said Jacqueline Morris, ALAC Chair
from Trinidad and Tobago.
The first RALO, the Latin America -
Caribbean Regional At-Large Organization was created at the 27th ICANN
public meeting held in São Paulo in December 2006. Today's announcement
means four of ICANN's five global regions have RALOs.
The people
who RALOs represent are incredibly diverse. For example, groups from
Africa taking part in today include a network of journalists based in
Tanzania reporting on Internet issues (JUSTA-AFRICA), and Internet
Society chapters from countries as diverse as Mali, Benin, South
Africa, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
European user
groups participating include Internet Society chapters throughout
Eastern and Western Europe, a network of science and Information and
Communications Technology professionals in Germany, and academic
professionals.
More information on the creation of RALOs is available at http://alac.icann.org/applications/
Rebecca Wanjiku,
journalist,
p.o box 33515,
Nairobi.00600
Kenya.
Tel. 254 720 318 925
blog:http://beckyit.blogspot.com/
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Spanish .ORG IDNs Registrations Available March 3rdFeb 21, 2007 | Inside: IndustryBy PIRPrint | Email
As
part of its ongoing efforts to improve the Internet and ensure access
for users worldwide, Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .ORG registry,
will make available Spanish Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) on 03
March 2007.
The Domain Name System originally was limited largely
to the characters used in English and the ASCII character set.
Technical standards will now enable the registration of Spanish IDNs
that use specific characters (e.g., á, é, í, ñ, ó). These characters
are created using Punycode, a simple and efficient way to translate
non-ASCII characters into a string of characters allowed in host name
labels (ASCII letters, digits and hyphens) and back again.
Spanish
.ORG IDN registrations will be handled on a first-come, first-served
basis. Spanish IDNs registered during the first 30 days of
operation—specifically between 19:00 UTC, 03 March 2007 and 19:00 UTC,
02 April 2007—will be placed on Server Delete Prohibited, Server
Transfer Prohibited, Server Update Prohibited, Server Renew Prohibited
and Server Hold. These statuses will remain in effect until 02 May 2007
to allow intellectual property interests to file dispute resolution
actions, if warranted.
“With more than 100 million
Spanish-speaking Internet users in Latin America, enabling IDNs in
Spanish will bring .ORG and the power of the Internet to a significant
population, especially to the civil sector, that may not have had
adequate access before,” says Erick Iriarte Ahon, director of Alfa-Redi
and a .ORG Advisory Council member. In addition to Spanish IDNs, PIR
allows IDN registrations in several other scripts, including Danish,
German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean (Hangul), Latvian, Lithuanian,
Polish and Swedish.
See PIR’s Web site for more information on IDNs and to see the list of .ORG registrars that offer IDN registration.
The latest copy of Public Interest Registry’s (PIR) newsletter, “The World of .ORG” and free subscription form is available online.
Rebecca Wanjiku,
journalist,
p.o box 33515,
Nairobi.00600
Kenya.
Tel. 254 720 318 925
blog:http://beckyit.blogspot.com/
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