very interesting analysis...@200ksh unlimited internet gives you 6,000Ksh per month as some of you noted - almost 100USD per month. Almost like in the US -BUT the US GDP per capita is about 50times higher than .KE. So we must adopt some weighting to get the equivalent pricing in kenya. Put in another way, Kenyans should work towards 50x less the US monthly rates (of 100USD) for broadband internet i.e. 2USD per month for unlimited broadband internet. It wont happen tomorrow, maybe 2030? But am glad the operators are tweaking all possible combinations as the 1st step in seeing how to move in that direction... walu. --- On Sun, 10/25/09, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com> wrote: From: Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Safaricom to introduce unlimited internet service To: "Skunkworks Forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Date: Sunday, October 25, 2009, 12:55 PM Thats Kbps not KBps... ./bernard On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com> wrote: My peak is approx 260KBps. Average 140 KBps... However, I don't doubt the capacities provided by the submarine fiber cables...Thats no longer a constraint now....My biggest worry is at the radio interface. The biggest bottleneck in any GSM/UMTS network is at the BTS/Node B level...You can have STM-1 capacities on the transmission but the bandwidth in the wireless medium diminishes exponentially as the number of users per cell increases. Also voice is always given a priority so again this should add to the congestion(remember the free calls ?) Also, there's no info on how long this promo is(or whether it is a promo)... ./bernard On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote: 10 gigs at what rate Bernard? I think they now have extra bandwidth on Teams, hence the unlimited product. -- with Regards: Get your free technology e-magazine in pdf format: Tekniaonline: http://bit.ly/tekniaonline-2 Maybe we should start a Reality show of collapsing buidlings: http://gramware.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general