[kictanet] Internet "Kadonye" charges

[Henry Okatch]

I agree with you Robert especially the bundle usage

I remember sometime back KDN had such project of hosting local content and
making it easily accessible but they moved away from retail to corporate
and I guess it just became a "white elephant"

This I believe would have a great ripple effect of encouraging more
development of local content and greatly reduce the cost of bandwidth
seeing that there is alot of local content being appreciated online.

Just my 2 cents

Thanks
Henry

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:54 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am one of the those very fortunate people who rarely buy Internet access
> by the bandwidth or minute as I enjoy a flat rate unlimited access
> whether at home or in the office.
>
> Today morning I needed to use one of the dongle devices as I needed to
> work off-site at one of my few clients who do not have dedicated internet
> access.
>
> I loaded airtime on the device and proceeded to purchase a bundle, within
> 3 minutes of launching my browser (all 12 tabs) I noticed that I had
> already utilised 1.2 MB @ a rate of Kes. 0.83/- per MB.  Note that I was
> yet to do any useful work as I waited for my desktop to settle.  As you
> might have guessed, by the time I was ready to do some serious income
> generating work the bundle was over.
>
> It is now clear to me why so many of our youth who should be making
> productive use of the Internet are stuck to using only facebook because the
> costs for access are either subsidised or free which reduces an entire
> generation to a single web site.
>
> The kadonye economy definitely transcends to technology products at which
> rate the technology divide is not narrowing any time soon.
>
> I assume that the cost of bandwidth is mainly related to the international
> leg therefore is it possible to have a bundle that allows you unlimited
> access to local sites.
>
> Such a model would encourage the development and hosting of content
> locally.  KENET could set-up peering with educational sites across the
> world whose access would be treated as local and our students would be able
> to benefit from the Internet.
>
> Please accommodate this rant from an occasional dongle user.
>
> Regards
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>
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