Wakaba,

SCOM is the biggest carrier of data in Kenya. NMG on the other hand is the biggest media house in Kenya. Both are public companies.

For SCOM to deliver traffic of its clients who are in Kenya, they have to ‘travel’ to the UK. NMG on the other hand collates news and info from, in and about Kenya and also transports it to the UK where their servers are. Both firms are in Kenya (owned by the public) the source of news is in Kenya, SCOM clients are in Kenya, and so are NMG readers…

While they have their respective business models and commercial reasons, (and mine is not an assault on that,) but from a policy and developmental perspective, and in light of the fiber cut, how is it that the above situation does not bother policy makers? It bothers me. How do we convince BBC to setup node in Kenya to serve Africa south of the Sahara, with the above situation? When will Internet costs truly come down if bold steps are not taken?

If we can master resources to “incentify” foreigners by building them a ‘brand new city’, why can’t we do it for our own businesses? The case of these two publicly listed firms certainly does not require a ‘brand new city’...

… but then, maybe it requires two ‘brand new cities’ hence the reason why we went for the cheaper option of one ‘brand new city’!

Regards

Eugene Lidede | Chief Technology Officer | Synergy Systems Limited

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From: peter wakaba [mailto:peterwakaba@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 2:10 PM
To: eugene@synergy.co.ke
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] [KICTAnet] TEAMS | EASSY Fiber Cables Cut? SEACOM | LION?

"How is it that we are comfortable with our top publicly listed telco,
Safaricom delivering traffic to our top publicly listed media house in the
UK?'

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please Eugene, what exactly does the above mean? please clarify further?