[Kictanet] [Fibre-for-africa] Whats i have being talking of asa public private partnership in ownership of the criticalinfrastructur

[Bill Kagai]

Muriuki,

The concept is grand and strategically looks 'do-able'. But unlike previous
public investment which has primarily been on 'blue-chips' such as Kengen,
there has virtually been no public awareness in investing on projects that
are not on the ground yet.

Assuming that money will be generated for a future cable project without
educating the investing public on the potential might prove costly if not
disastrous. Frenzy at the moment surrounds anticipated listing of Safaricom,
Mumias, Kenya Re and Telkom who are not looking for small cash.

Nevertheless, we want to see these projects become successful. We will
trigger an 'awareness campaign' to over 2000 institutional investors/brokers
at the three markets who are in the stock-detective mailing list to hear
their reactions. You can join the mailing list at
http://www.stock-detective.co.ke/newsletter

Cheers,
Bill

On 11/28/06, Muriuki Mureithi <mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:
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>  Hi Eric
>
> The Kenya money market is on a bull run and the  tragedy of African lakes
> is long forgotten in the rush  make money in the  NSE. The government has
> advertised for a lead financial arranger and the EOI was closing on Nov 8 to
> package local funding for TEAMs. To raise the USD80 M is a done deal. Note
> also that the three East African stock markets have now partnered to cross
> list shares – thus it will be easy to raise cash for Teams across the region
>
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> The sweeter part is that the government is tendering for close to 4300 Km
> of fibre to go deep into the villages. EOI closes on Dec 15th
>
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>  With 2+1 submarine fibres,  3000 km national backbone fibre , 4300 km
> rural fibre , 500 km metropolitan rings  in under  20 months – Kenya will be
> the most lighted country in SSA outside South Africa!!  A leap of faith
> after the dark days of monopoly
>
> Cheers
>
> Muriuki Mureithi
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