[kictanet] Internet "Kadonye" charges

[Josphat Karanja]

@Robert,

The idea would be to have differentiated billing for local and
international content. That would encourage more local hosting.

Also not that at present and with the current set-up, local access links
remain expensive compared to the international link.


Karanja


On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Henry Okatch <hokatch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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