In the end, a frustrated government will enter into a deal with Huawei to mass produce and import low cost or subsidised FTA decoders, and Huawei will make millions in profit and Kenyans will have won the battle and lost the war.

Somehow related, voter registration took 30 days. On day 30, huge queues were seen at centres at 8 pm, way past the 6 pm closing time for the exercise. For the other 29 days, clerks were idle, Facebooking and soaking in sun at the registration centres as few bothered registering.

Meanwhile, I shall laminate this epic piece and hang it on a wall, to remind me that millions in the country have no access to 2G, despite 2G been the base of all GSM networks.

Thanks for thinking for consumers in a more broad and realistic spectrum (including rural proletariats) beyond the minority but noisy middle to higher income Nairobi CBD/Upper Hill techies who are obsessed about 4+G when millions of others can't access 2-G. There is nothing like "mass ignorance" or "mass intelligence" on a matter of human/consumer rights as ably articulated within Consumer Protection Act, 2012 (which took effect on December 13).