[kictanet] Tanzania first to lower internet rates? huh?

[kai wulff]

And I get complaints about the charges in Kenya .

 

There is another confusion ..

 

Some people confuse packages (like 1GBYTE) with throughput like 1Mbps .

 

If you have 1Mbps duplex you can receive:

 

1 Megabyte in 8 seconds

 

7.5 Megabyte in a minute

 

450 Megabyte in an hour

 

10800 Megabyte in a day

 

326700 Megabyte (319 Gigabyte) in a month (30.25 days)

 

Since you can send the same amount you could have a volume of 638 Gigabyte
with a 1Mbps pipe .

 

So if you take 1Mbps at 600 USD you will arrive for a package of 10Gigabyte
at less than 1 USD ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Auftrag von Brian Munyao Longwe
Gesendet: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:47
An: kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Betreff: [kictanet] Tanzania first to lower internet rates? huh?

 

TTCL drops pricing to 1MB for $2415/month? and that is low? Read on.....

First East African country to lower internet rates? hmmmm.....


Tanzania First to Lower Internet Rates


Tanzania Telecommunication Company Ltd customers will from this month enjoy
a 50 per cent cut in Internet charges, making Tanzania the first East
African country to lower Internet charges. TTCL chief executive officer Said
Amour Said, told The EastAfrican that the lowering of charges follows the
firm's connecting to the Seacom submarine fibre optic cable. 

"TTCL has reduced its Internet prices effective from October 1, in order to
pass on this cost saving benefit to the end users, and the high customer
expectations of reduced costs on Internet services have finally been met,"
he said. 

The new prices will see high volume Internet users including banks, large
businesses and corporations, government agencies and other institutions
enjoying a substantial Internet bandwidth cost reduction as customers will
get the same capacity of bandwidth at a third the current prices. 

Under the new structure, a client who buys 1Mbps of Internet capacity for
Tsh9.2 million ($7,000) will now buy the same capacity for just Tsh3.14
million ($2,415). 

For small and medium businesses like cyber cafes, the price has been slashed
by 50 per cent. 

According to Mr Said, customers who were buying 5GB for $200 (Tsh200,000)
will now buy 10GB for the same amount of money, and that all Internet
subscribers in this category would continue to get high speed of up to 4Mbps
through their TTCL fixed lines. 

According to the new tariff, non-commercial ordinary clients will enjoy a
new package with unlimited use for a monthly price of Tsh45,000 ($ 43) with
a speed of up to 256Kbps. 

"It is an ideal service mostly for the common man because it is affordable
and guarantees continuous usage," explained Said. 

(Source: The East African) 



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