[kictanet] My Evening in Jail (O.K, next to Jail)

[Alex Gakuru]

Whether an allegation or a fact, I wish to give this a reasonably
  just response; with the individual consumer in mind: -
 
 If so then why does South Africa have 5,100,000 internet 
 users, Nigeria 5 million, Egypt 5 million, Morocco 4.6 million 
 while, with all fairness to the on-going Internet Market Study,
 Kenya has just 1 million users says 
 http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats1.htm .
 
 Prohibitive costs are to blame, for example, the cheapest 
 point-to-point access (without bandwidth) is US$ 125 per month. 
 Add bandwidth costs and affordability and cost-benefits go out 
 the window. Surely Nairobi's local point-to-point link costs have 
 no relation "costly satellite internet". 
 
 If the minister for finance were on this list,  I would have pleaded 
 he considers allocating Internet constituency dev. funds in the 
 next budget if not to make outsourcing "accessible" to all 
 communities throughout in Kenya.
 
 Utilising public, license-free ISM bands 2.4 and 5.8 GHz,  
 WiFi promises one true way for most affordable access 
 there being no license fee to anyone who wants to share 
 their internet link and invoices with their neighbours - a 
 wonderful ICT policy provision that opened up a hitherto 
 "for licensed" internet airwaves.
 
 BTW, Australian scientists demonstrated 6 Giga/per  second 
over WiFi 
 
This should interest you Brian! 

<snip>
 
 * The CSIRO ICT Centre today announced that it has
 achieved over six gigabits per second over a point to point
 wireless connection with the highest efficiency
 (2.4bits/s/Hz) ever achieved for such a system
 
 * At the demonstration, the team will transmit 16
 simultaneous streams of DVD quality video over a 250 metre
 link with no loss of quality or delays
 
 Dr Jay Guo, Director of the Wireless Technologies Laboratory
 at CSIRO said that this breakthrough is just a first stage towards
 direct connections of up to 12 gigabits per second.
 
< http://www.csiro.au/csiro/content/standard/ps2kj.html >

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>Public  Safety, Disaster Recovery and Urban Transit 
 >applications:
 
 see Celtel Malawi is still off air 5 days later, carriers should support emerging alternative communication infrastructure considering the Nairobi little tremor that incapacitated an otherwise wonderful point-to-point based infrastructure because we need these in disaster situations.

/Alex

Kai Wulff <kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke> wrote:       Did you know that Nairobi has the biggest WIFI  deployment in Africa?
  
 Rgds
  
 Kai


 
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