Walu, I hope you find it in your heart to forgive me because i cant trust you and not even what is on paper, the evidence is with who is using it, you remember uncle Bob's lyric, "he who feels it, knows it"... Dont get me wrong, i hold in high esteem KDN as a body corporate, Kai and his team are making history, except that tha bar is soo high globally and unfortunately we live in a global village. Eric here On 31 Oct 2009, at 01:47, Walubengo J wrote:
Eric,
trust me its true...KDN is pushing bandwidth at very competitive rates to the so called 'end-users'. But at 200USD that is about 15,000Ksh per 1MB which is TWICE the average salaries of Kenyan citizens(mwananchi). Meaning the 'end-users' defined here are NOT mwananchi but corporates/SMEs, etc. Put differently KDN really plays at the wholesale layer (Kai may object but...) and their price drops are being enjoyed mostly by retailers (ISP/ASP).
We shall only celebrate meaningful and effective price-drops when for example AccessKenya/UUNET/Safcom etc say they are giving you unlimited 1MB links at around 2USD (Ksh 150) per month - if we are to take developed economies GDP per capita and their pricing for monthly broadband internet and recalculating for our context.
But I always have the rejoinder that I will understand if this does not happen tomorrow - since we are really are yet to mature the parameters that guarantee such wishful pricing. However, we should have specific plans that define the steps and timelines we are undertaking to mature such parameters - local content, affordable last-mile access, IXPs, Usage, just to mention a few.
walu.
--- On Sat, 10/31/09, Eric M.K Osiakwan <emko@internetresearch.com.gh> wrote:
From: Eric M.K Osiakwan <emko@internetresearch.com.gh> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Uproar Over Internet Costs in Kenya To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 8:59 AM
Evidence is the name of the game, though we are not in court....:-)
TGIF.
Eric here
On 30 Oct 2009, at 00:08, alice munyua wrote:
KDN, For example "is currently selling submarine capacity, delivered to the user at between 220 and 600 USD per 4 Mbps! This is an effective price of between 55 to 150 USD per Mbps depending on volume".
Best Alice
------Original Message------ From: alice munyua Sender: kictanet-bounces+alice=apc.org@lists.kictanet.or.ke To: alice@apc.org Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions ReplyTo: alice@apc.org Subject: Re: [kictanet] Uproar Over Internet Costs in Kenya Sent: 30 Oct 2009 07:03
Hi Eric Thank you for this posting. A question though, who wrote this piece and where did they get their information apart from quoting P.S. Ndemo?
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