Re: [kictanet] Kenya has faster mobile internet speeds than the United States — Quartz

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Job Muriuki via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

The high cost of local loops is just alarming. It's cheaper buying internet connections and setting up VPNs than buying actual loops. I keep asking internet service providers to offer local traffic twice or thrice as fast for each megabit of international traffic in order to utilise tge idle local capacity but none is willing.

There is an unconscious belief that the internet in inherently foreign and as such products specific to local needs are overlooked, which products could potentially help develop the local internet. Noah