Ali, 100 KMs from Nairobi, upcountry, in a relatively built up area, the speeds are horrendous.... Was benchmarking this (www.kionjo.com) over the weekend and on both Safaricom & Airtel the load times for home page was 1-2 mins which is about 5KB/s considering an initial download is abt 300KBs Those Akamai figures I am not sure where they got them from but its definately not anything close across the country... Rgds On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
True that Barrack.
The point though was not penetration rate but speed. This is something (penetration rate) that needs addressing soonest.
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On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ali,
This is not surprising , be that as it may, i hope we can get such glorification of our connectivity from our Counties since the quality of connectivity in most places beyond Nairobi is wanting.
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On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers
Interesting arguments going on around this subject. Apparently the Australian Prime is miffed by the suggestion that we can have faster Internet connections than Australia.. Surely that's not possible!!!??? :-)
When *Bloomberg* <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/digital-doom-threatens-australia-where-internet-speeds-lag-kenya> highlighted that Kenya’s internet was ranked faster than Australia’s in the latest Akamai’s State of Internet report, the Australian Prime Minister did not take it lightly. To understand the backstory, Australia invested $38 Billion in a National Broadband Network (NBN) infrastructure that was meant to “spearhead a digital revolution.” The situation on the ground is that the project has been mismanaged by the government leading to costs overrun and construction delays.
Read on:-
Surely Kenya can't have faster connectivity than Australia!! <http://www.techweez.com/2017/10/09/australia-v-kenya-broadband-speeds/>
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