ISP means Internet SERVICE Provider KDN's aim is to enable the ISPs to add more service to their models. Additionally ISPs have a margin if they resell the product as a base for their own services. Kai ----- Original Message ----- From: Jevans Nyabiage To: kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [kictanet] KDN Unveils Broadband for SMEs and SOHOs And is this signaling difficult times for ISPS who (some) happen to be KDN's clients? Jevans From: kictanet-bounces+jnyabiage=nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+jnyabiage=nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Kevin Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:33 AM To: Jevans Nyabiage Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: [kictanet] KDN Unveils Broadband for SMEs and SOHOs I hear KDN has launched a new product for small businesses, 1Mbps for 4,000/=. Is there anything in the market that can rival this? Will this spur the market for broadband uptake? DISCLAIMER: The information contained in or accompanying this e-mail is intended for the use of the stated recipient only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Any views or opinions presented herein are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Nation Media Group. To get all breaking news alerts send the word BREAK to 6667 or visit http://mobile.nation.co.ke to read news on your mobile phone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/kai.wulff%40kdn.co.ke

Evans/ Henry, Going by Henry's calculations, I find this too good to be true. Has anyone been connected to BOX to clarify the speeds. ISP's mislead us with their offers for great speeds and broadband capacity and after you sign up you realize it isn't as such. Was even told yesterday that KDN has a free internet service called Loopnet in the CBD and some estates...I know they had free internet offer in December with Butterfly, has anyone heard of this or using it? The Internet should be taken as an essential utility just like electricity and telephones. What should be charged should not be the connectivity but the use of the Internet resource and not for the local content. ISPs should make their money this way. regards Kevin Broad-digital Ltd. Kevin.wanjala@broad-digital.net P.O. Box 45392 T: 020 386 82 85 M: 0723 296 138 W: www.broad-digital.net On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:

Jevans, The market structure changed.

Ndemo.

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Evans I think you need to try it out: Look at it this way 1Mbps = 1 MB every 4 seconds (1 in and 1 out) A month has 30 x 24 x 60 x 60 seconds = 2 592 000 seconds meaning 648 000 MEGABYTE Even if calculating simplex (324 000M) and taking USD 100 / 324 000 the cost per M is 0.03 US Cents per M (or if duplex 0.015) in KSH this is 0.024 KSH (or 0.012) per M! I find this to be a much better deal than ZUKU if you ask me. Regards Henry On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Evans Ikua <ikua@lpakenya.org> wrote:

Big deal! What's the difference between this and Zuku? I bought 512 Kbps from zuku for about 2,500, then realized that the speeds were very slow. Some math showed me that this translated to 64KBps. This is a big joke.

What can one do with a 64KBps shared with I don't know how many other users?

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Quoting Kevin <wanjalak@gmail.com>:

I hear KDN has launched a new product for small businesses, 1Mbps for

...

4,000/=. Is there anything in the market that can rival this? Will this spur the market for broadband uptake?

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