[kictanet] TEAMs to switch into Private Hands

[Kai Wulff]

Walu,

like all other initiatives we have supported, KDN is seeing it as an enabler 
for the market and our approach is not profit driven (of course we want to 
recover the investment).

There will be more than enough capacity on this cable as on Seacom, so fully 
redundant connectivity for the market will be the rule!

Kai
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Walubengo" <jwalu at yahoo.com>
To: <kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke>
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 09:07
Subject: [kictanet] TEAMs to switch into Private Hands


> The current issue of The EastAfrican claims that the
> government submarine fiber project is to be transferred to
> the initial co-financiers : Safaricom, KDN, Jamii, amongst
> others.
>
> Will the eventual majority shareholders - essentially the
> private sector - operate the cable  on Open Access
> principles?  Specifically, the following questions arise.
>
>
> 1. Will the cable be open for direct connectivity (at the
> source in MSA) to other future telco players?
>
> 2. Will the price of connecting to the international fiber
> be driven by profit-motives or will it be based on the
> 'cost-of-operating-the-fiber' basis.
>
> 3. What modalities exist for future investors who may wish
> to own part of the fiber maybe 2 or 5years after the cable
> is operational- or will this thing be a closed-club to the
> original financiers once the cable becomes operational?
> (remember the consortium approach of EASSy?)
>
> 4. What are the steps involved in transparently
> transferring this public resource into private sector?
>
> just wondering...
>
> walu.
>
>
>
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