[kictanet] Day 5 - Statistics on Affordability- CCKInternetStudyReport

[Alex Gakuru]

Dear Alice,

"The world is a market place where men goods are on the display, the label
is more important than the contents and the price more fascinating than the
value"

Alex

On 5/7/07, alice <alice at apc.org> wrote:
>
> Diverting a little-
>
> There is an  E-learning conference to be held in Nairobi (safari Park)
> the registration fees are a whooping EUR 500. Now if indeed we have to
> think seriously of creating mutually beneficial partnerships that
> benefit citizens and by extension enhance development how would civil
> society groups including community based organisations engage and indeed
> benefit from attending such conferences to learn to enable them to take
> advantage of for example, infrastructure, enabling policy regulatory
> environment, to enhance e-learning in our schools in marginalised areas?
>
>
> alice
>
>
>
> Alex Gakuru wrote:
> > Allow me speak a little deeper "Kenyan" to put the point across citing
> > discussed and concluded OFC and we risk being led into mark timing in
> > OFC tar pit by oligopolists engineers whose ultimate prize is
> > e-government content flowing through "their network". This ultimate
> > prize is worth trying anything because at this moment in time, that
> > dream is highly threatened.
> >
> > One gets the impression there are deep-seated fears regarding market
> > positioning with the imminent true competition that is round the corner.
> >
> > Forget "National Development", "Consumers", "Universal Access" - those
> > will be collateral casualties along the way. This far, consumers menu
> > is BOLDLY printed by as follows:
> >
> > 1. Recipe:- Private Sector (wants, need, partners, sponsors, social
> > responsibility...)
> >
> > Appetizer (WiFi)
> > 1. Butterflies
> > 2. Butterflies
> > 3. Butterflies
> > ...
> >
> > Wine MAXima (WiMAX the - drink)
> > 1. MINE
> > 2. MINE
> > 3. MINE
> > ....
> >
> > FIBRE Main Course
> > -I want and must have it all, I will pull a few for my telco
> > buddies....
> >
> > Dessert Consumed (Consumers)
> > -------
> > No need to repeat "competition alone despite all that is said about it
> > was *not* known to benefit consumers.  Particularly where duopolies or
> > oligopolies exits because Product and Price shadowing often takes
> > centre stage and one is not sure that the alternatives are not
> > exorbitant. The regulator must also enforce QOS.
> >
> > He added that the consumer must also be ready for a vibrant market and
> > take up alternatives that make the best "cents".  He /She must be able
> > to walk out and perhaps to an ombudsman (regulator) where QOS is not
> > as per SLA or other" <OFC_Online_Discussion_Report2.doc>
> >
> > I do not see anything wrong with a cost conscious government saving on
> > all telephone calls and by having a government-owned network
> > throughout the country by investing wisely on cheap fibre cable.
> > (telcom) private sector is broader that 2 GSM duopolist, a couple of
> > PDNOs, and a few LLOs.
> >
> > Alex
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