I agree with John,  we do not need to compare ourselves with countries where we are not economically comparable. Kenya is about to be a big IT player in Africa. Comparing our prices to Burundi does not help in making us understand the focus on cost. Lets get into the root cause of why prices are reasonable/ not reasonable .<div>
<br></div><div>Burundi is 20 years behind Kenya.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:45 AM, John Kieti <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jkieti@gmail.com">jkieti@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Guys, it is useful to note the prices in Burundi.<div><div><br></div><div>It is also useful to note that we are to benchmark our successes against the global successes and not our good peers in the &#39;under developed&#39; world. For instance consider that <span style="font-family:Arial, &#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;, sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);line-height:19px">until 2009 it cost USD 5,000 monthly for an internet link in Nairobi comparable to an average link in European urban households - see <a href="http://goo.gl/FUQM6" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.stt.nl/uploads/documents/192.pdf/" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;color:rgb(224, 13, 13);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/FUQM6</a></span></div>

<div><br></div><div>Best regards<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:blongwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">blongwe@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>Just in case some people might be complaining about their internet prices in Kenya! These are the prices in Burundi.<br>

<br>128k shared :     128 Usd<br>128k dedicated : 375 Usd<br>256k shared :      200 Usd<br>256k dedicated : 725 Usd<br clear="all">
<br><br>Mblayo<br>
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