[kictanet] Fwd: [ke-internetusers] Free PC and cheap Internet forSMEs and Home Users

[Florence Etta]

Brilliant!!

 
Florence Etta  


----- Original Message ----
From: Joan Walumbe <jwalumbe at globalnetcorps.org>
To: feanywhere at yahoo.co.uk
Sent: Monday, 23 April, 2007 4:16:18 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fwd: [ke-internetusers] Free PC and cheap Internet forSMEs and Home Users



 
 


Thanks Alex for the info,

 

This is actually a great idea. Would you have 
a contact number or email address for Alunite? 

 

Joan Walumbe


  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: 
  Alex 
  Gakuru 

  To: Kictanet 

  Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 8:57 
AM

  Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: 
  [ke-internetusers] Free PC and cheap Internet forSMEs and Home Users

  



Alex Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com> wrote:
  Date: 
    Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:51:01 +0300
From: "Alex Gakuru" <gakuru at gmail.com>
To: ke-internetusers at bdix.net
Subject: 
    [ke-internetusers] Free PC and cheap Internet for SMEs and 
    Home
Users

[This brightens a new dawn for Kenya's connectivity. I 
    have often
argued that lesser city traffic jams and higher national 
    productivity
can be achieved by taking internet outside the city centre, 
    Nairobi
currently having 80% of Kenya's internet. Many are bound to 
    choose
working from home to save on expensive city office rent overheads 
    and
"outsourcing" will definitely benefit considering the time 
    differences
become less of a problem, security is also a 
    consideration.

Forecasting on this possibility at a stakeholders 
    workshop on 22 March
2007, I warned that it would only take "one clever 
    ISP" to realise
this enormous small business and home user waiting market 
    away from
the current "corporates-only" internet (used between 8am to 5 
    pm and
half-days on Saturdays which drops at lunch-time. (see the first 
    graph
at http://www.isoc.or.ke/connectivity.html - website 
    under
development)]
-----------------------
[Business 
    Daily]

ISP targets home users with free PC's
Written by Okkutah 
    Mark
Monday, 23 April 2007 [NAIROBI]

While most Internet Service 
    Providers (ISPs) target corporate users,
one new entrant into the online 
    market is banking on capturing
residential, small and home business users 
    with a unique offer: a free
computer.

The company, Alunite, says 
    most Kenyans would love to be connected to
a high-speed DSL Internet 
    connection from home, but the lack of
affordable personal computers, and 
    high bandwidth costs have kept most
out of the loop.

Lucy Kimani, 
    the ISPs executive director said Alunite was partnering
with Kenya Data 
    Networks (KDN) and Keysde, a local company involved in
computer assembly 
    in which Keysde will provide PCs, under a guarantee
that the ISP settles 
    the bill within 90 days.

KDN will provide the DSL linkage to it's 
    Metro optical fibre.

"As an ISP we are linking the home subscribers 
    to the KDN's link which
will provide them with a high-speed connection," 
    said Ms Kimani. "We
also realised that a majority of people don't own 
    computers, and
that's why we looked how we could solve this 
    problem."

The deal does come with a catch though. In exchange for a 
    free
computer, subscribers must sign a one-year agreement to subscribe 
    to
Alunite's Internet sevices, which cost 5,945 per month.

The 
    computer—an Intel Pentium 1.2 Ghz PC—retails for Sh10,300 in local 
    shops.

But Ms Kimani said it was more than just a freebie.

"We 
    eliminate the hassle of dealing with a separate connectivity
provider and 
    provide attentive customer service," she said. "Our
company coordinates 
    all aspects of the installation of the service
including site 
    inspection."





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