[kictanet] Free PC and cheap Internet for SMEs/Home Users
Janet Feldman
kaippg at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 23 22:51:25 EAT 2007
Hello Dear Lucy and All,
We meet in another setting (where you're being given the same royal treatment you deserve everywhere), and am thrilled to hear abt this invaluable endeavor. Bravo!!!!
I am wondering abt your presence in W Kenya now? Am thinking abt Mumias, Kisumu, and Mbita (KAIPPG, Reachout, Lake Fellowship, Deaf Impact Ministry, and others).
Also, are you attending the e-learning conference in May, and/or the telecentre meeting in June? Both would be great places for a "plug" (advertising being connecting by other means), and I'd like to do some networking re linking you up with folks I know who will be there.
Thanks again so much (esp for being the "non-retiring" kind!), and "Kudos to Kimani" (for uniting us "al", haha!), Janet (Feldman, kaippg at earthlink.net)
-----Original Message-----
>From: Lucy Kimani <lkimani at comnews.co.ke>
>Sent: Apr 23, 2007 1:45 PM
>To: Janet Feldman <kaippg at earthlink.net>
>Subject: [kictanet] Free PC and cheap Internet for SMEs/Home Users
>
>Alex, Joan, Florence and Njorohio, and all our well wishers:
>
>On behalf of Alunite, let me thank you very much for the kudos.
>
>Njorohio, if you already have a standalone PC and just need connection
>call us, and we will review your requirements, and come up with an offer
>you can not resist.
>
>Alunite is extremely serious about being the ISP for the "People by the
>People"
>
>There will be something for everybody in the Alunite DSL "Kiondo"
>
>
>Lucy Kimani
>on behalf of
>Alunite Communications, Ltd.
>
>> Hi All
>> This is great and will assist the SMES
>> However I think the SMEs and even homeworkers can afford the PC but the
>> hindrance has been the cost of the Bandwidth.
>> Can the company consider as an alternative the charge for the link only.
>> This may persuade those firms with standalone computers to subscribe to
>> the service.
>> Cheers
>>
>> Njorohio
>>
>>
>> Florence Etta <feanywhere at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: 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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