There is much hype on the availability of internet even at home. This revolution, we really need to have it protected from the politicians hijacking, claiming it as their project.
Talking about electricity, I view that in order to make the fibre optic cable, there is a need to make the project a multi-sectoral approach. By this I mean, different ministries (Communications, Energy, Industrialization, Trade etc), private sector ( corporates, Banks etc) Telcos( Safaricom, Zain, Orange and Yu) etc, should be on the forefront to make the cable have an impact to the majority of the people. I haven ot heard, or seen any of the directly beneficiaries of the fibre optic cables informing there end-consumers on what id expected of them from this revolution.   (I stand to be corrected on this)

Aggressive information to the masses is important so that we don't get caught with our pants down, before the SEACOM and EASSY Cables land!

My thoughts!

Regards, 

2009/7/1 Stephen Mwangi <smwngi@gmail.com>
It a great step in the right direction. however can we ensure that it doesn't end up like the railway system. We know its there but how many of us actually use it today?  Now that we have it can we work on the electricity? Push to get power in our homes, offices etc 24/7/365. 

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Mwololo Tim <timwololo@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Michael for this clarification. We need these facts to avoid the usual politics. tim

On 6/29/09, Michael Joseph <MJoseph@safaricom.co.ke> wrote:

I think the President was witness to the official arrival of the final stretch of the Teams cable. I don’t think anyone said that he commissioned the cable as obviously it needs to tested and go through a period of stabilization and powering. This will take some time. I do not have the most accurate figure yet but it’s about 8 to 10 weeks before handing over to Teams for acceptance testing.

 

Regards

 

 

Michael

 

CEO

Safaricom Limited

 

From: kictanet-bounces+mjoseph=safaricom.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+mjoseph=safaricom.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Walubengo J
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] shaping history - the revolution of the fibre

 

good qtn MM.

In some forums, they are saying the President was duped again - and officially opened another "blank".  We need to know when or if this new pipe is now pumping packets/data.

And I dont think such data falls under the (in?) famous " Official secrecy Act"...

walu.

--- On Fri, 6/26/09, Muriuki Mureithi <mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:


From: Muriuki Mureithi <mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke>
Subject: [kictanet] shaping history - the revolution of the fibre
To: jwalu@yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Friday, June 26, 2009, 4:40 PM

Hi
history was made on  12th June when the fibre landed - and it threatens to open up the region like the railway did in 1900's... Special congrats to Dr Bitange Ndemo and all those who contributed to this revolution . the ict terrain will never be the same again -EVER

the next step is the light and the byte. when will the first byte land  here on the fibre?

cheers
Muriuki Mureithi


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