@walu I have been shouting about this for years. But rather than expecting the big companies to do it, why don't we create the policy environment for community owned micro- ISPs? Create a mesh network that can actually bring increased income to the people who use it? As I always have said, Nairobi is not ALL of Kenya and we are leaving our villages behind. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Am somewhere 15km from Embu, some Masinga Dam resort (the provincial hq of Eastern Province). And there is no internet to talk about here! The ping test to google.com gives a return trip of 60,000ms compared to in Nairobi of 300ms. In layman terms access to the Net, 15km from Embu is 200times slower than in Nairobi.
This is a classic example of the internal digital divide between the urban and the rural environments. At a policy level, the Universal Access Policy and regualtions were supposed to address this imbalance. How far did this (not) go?
Am ofcourse on Safcom Modem, the others Airtel, Yu produce the same unreliability. And dont ask me about Telkom Orange...because their internet doesnt seem to feature in these parts of the world ;-)
walu. send from my transmission "tree" after 1hr of trying.
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