[kictanet] Universal Access?

[warigia bowman]

Thanks walu. This is really important information.

I will be here in july, and want to go look at many of the areas of kenya
and see the digital villages. we can also use GIS to make a map of
non-covered areas.

Yours, Rigia

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Am somewhere 15km from Embu, some Masinga Dam resort (the provincial hq of
> Eastern Province).  And there is no internet to talk about here!  The ping
> test to google.com gives a return trip of 60,000ms compared to in Nairobi
> of 300ms. In layman terms access to the Net, 15km from Embu is 200times
> slower than in Nairobi.
>
> This is a classic example of the internal digital divide between the urban
> and the rural environments.  At a policy level, the Universal Access Policy
> and regualtions were supposed to address this imbalance. How far did this
> (not) go?
>
> Am ofcourse on Safcom Modem, the others Airtel, Yu produce the same
> unreliability. And dont ask me about Telkom Orange...because their internet
> doesnt  seem to feature in these parts of the world ;-)
>
> walu.
> send from my transmission "tree" after 1hr of trying.
>
>
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