[kictanet] Uproar Over Internet Costs in Kenya

Sat Oct 31 15:18:57 EAT 2009

Folks, same gospel but a different preacher, actually a better  
preacher.....

Eric here

On 31 Oct 2009, at 03:08, S.Murigi Muraya wrote:

> Walu,
>
> The USD 2.00 per monrh is certainly not viable YET even in developed  
> nations. For whatever reasons (folly, stress, peer pressure) many of  
> us in Africa spend our meager means on non essentials (to peace and  
> productivity) such as such as 'kumi kumi', 'dogo dogo's, mdudu's  
> here and there....
>
> One way to go is micro-offer's of 1GB for about KShs 150. This  
> translates to 10GB of data for KShs 1,500.00 (USD 20.00). With  
> network (efficiency) technology improvements it is only a matter of  
> time before this happens. Do netbooks today not have more power than  
> mainframes of yester year?
>
> Who over the next 5 years is dumb enough to deny 200 Million African  
> households 1GB of data  for USD 2.00? The current Safaricom offer is  
> even surpassing that today in rural areas where there is low density  
> - more bandwidth available to fewer people.
>
> Someone recently wrote in a Daily Nation we need to start looking at  
> Africans as hands to work not as mouths to feed....We just need to  
> stop doing dumb things so that more of us in Africa can have USD  
> 2.00 for 1GB of data.
>
>  Walubengo J wrote:
>>
>> Eric,
>>
>> trust me its true...KDN is pushing bandwidth at very competitive  
>> rates to the so called 'end-users'.  But at 200USD that is about   
>> 15,000Ksh per 1MB which is TWICE the average salaries of Kenyan  
>> citizens(mwananchi).  Meaning the 'end-users' defined here are NOT  
>> mwananchi but corporates/SMEs, etc. Put differently KDN really  
>> plays at the wholesale layer (Kai may object but...) and their  
>> price drops are being enjoyed mostly by retailers (ISP/ASP).
>>
>> We shall only celebrate meaningful and effective price-drops when  
>> for example AccessKenya/UUNET/Safcom etc say they are giving you  
>> unlimited 1MB links at around 2USD (Ksh 150) per month - if we are  
>> to take developed economies GDP per capita and their pricing for  
>> monthly broadband internet  and recalculating for  our context.
>>
>> But I always have the rejoinder that I will understand if this does  
>> not happen tomorrow - since we are really are yet to mature the  
>> parameters that guarantee such wishful pricing. However, we should  
>> have specific plans that define the steps and timelines we are  
>> undertaking to mature such parameters - local content, affordable  
>> last-mile access, IXPs, Usage,  just to mention a few.
>>
>> walu.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Sat, 10/31/09, Eric M.K Osiakwan  
>> <emko at internetresearch.com.gh> wrote:
>>
>> From: Eric M.K Osiakwan <emko at internetresearch.com.gh>
>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Uproar Over Internet Costs in Kenya
>> To: jwalu at yahoo.com
>> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 8:59 AM
>>
>> Evidence is the name of the game, though we are not in court....:-)
>>
>> TGIF.
>>
>> Eric here
>>
>>
>> On 30 Oct 2009, at 00:08, alice munyua wrote:
>>
>> > KDN, For example "is currently selling submarine capacity,  
>> delivered to the user at between 220 and 600 USD per 4 Mbps! This  
>> is an effective price of between 55 to 150 USD per Mbps depending  
>> on volume".
>> >
>> > Best
>> > Alice
>> >
>> > ------Original Message------
>> > From: alice munyua
>> > Sender: kictanet-bounces+alice=apc.org at lists.kictanet.or.ke
>> > To: alice at apc.org
>> > Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>> > ReplyTo: alice at apc.org
>> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] Uproar Over Internet Costs in Kenya
>> > Sent: 30 Oct 2009 07:03
>> >
>> > Hi Eric
>> > Thank you for this posting. A question though, who wrote this  
>> piece and where did they get their information apart from quoting  
>> P.S. Ndemo?
>> >
>> > Best
>> > Alice
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Eric M.K Osiakwan <emko at internetresearch.com.gh>
>> > Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:14:14
>> > To: <alice at apc.org>
>> > Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> > Subject: [kictanet] Uproar Over Internet Costs in Kenya
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