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.
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