[kictanet] Fibre Optic

[robert yawe]

Hi Alex,

Explain one issue to me, how will the marine cable increase the remittances from the diaspora, they are sending 3.9 billion over slow, expensive satellite links why should we reduce this by spending 7 billion to land the fiber?

Alex, all I ask is can you give me a logical reason why we should spend 7 billion to land this fiber?

I am aware this discussion is academic but it should not stop us from questioning the rational.

Regards
 
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
KEnya 
Tel: +254722511225

----- Original Message ----
From: Alex Gakuru <alexgakuru.lists at gmail.com>
To: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Friday, 30 November, 2007 7:37:39 AM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic

But Yawe,
[Sorry for this late response, this message only got to my inbox a
short while ago]

On Nov 28, 2007 8:06 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> The diaspora makes up less than 5% of the population and many of them
 add no
> value to us, yet you are more concerned about how we can communicate
 with
> them instead of how to make it possible for my children to talk and
 see
> their grandmother in Mbita point without requiring to make the trip.
>
Not quite so. Diasporans send sizable chunks of home for Mbitarians
 consumption.

"The most recent data available indicates that remittances by Kenyans
reached a historic month-on-month high in June when Sh3.9 billion was
sent into the country."
<http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4622&Itemid=5822>

Though you are right also about a national fibre network would enhance
far flung  families bonding and save our Mbitarian business lexicon
travel expenses ( i.e. help in converting remittances into investments
rather than consumption).

"It is estimated that full compliance with the licensing requirements
costs Kenyan businesses Sh5 billion annually."
<http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4621&Itemid=5822>

Agreed! Local fibre saves locally and international one boosts
remittances hence my  argument elsewhere, "we need both pentium and
penicillin" and it the juglers' job ( Read Ndemo:) to give us the
optimal mix.

Notwithstanding, absent fibres remains no excuse for inefficient and
opaque service delivery by those employed by the public and all
government agencies.

Sawa?







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