[kictanet] Day 3 of 10:-IGF Discussions, Internet Interconnection Charges

[Gakuru, Alex]

"no competition in the infrastructure/gateway provider space." Not
missed it locally.

Surely *any* ISP can afford 10K application fee for Gateway license?
(i.e. what they charge one customer in a month)

See: -

3. FIXED AND MOBILE SATELLITE SERVICES CATEGORY 		
Public Commercial Satellite Uplink/Downlink Gateway Services (Gateway
Services) 	Kshs. 10,000 	0.5% of the annual gross turnoverof the
business

<http://www.cck.go.ke/html/child.asp?title=licensing&contcatid=9&childtitle=license+fees&childcontid=69>


On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki at swiftkenya.com> wrote:
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> Gakuru, Alex wrote:
>>
>> Therefore, I strongly object to your statement and instead call for
>> ever increased competition (see: "his consumer group is working to
>> assure that the people of Kenya gain access to affordable, reliable
>> networked communications from competitive carriers."
>> <http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_interviews_2007.xhtml>)
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> The interesting bit that you are missing in our local environment with
> regards to competition is that you have increased competition in one space
> that is ISP but no competition in the infrastructure/gateway provider space.
> As a result what we have is increased contention ratio's for consumers by
> ISPs and hence the poor QoS and more affordable costs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michuki.
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