[kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance

[Kivuva]

Round1. The bell rings. The court has stopped the switch over pending
hearing and determination of the case.

When we switched to 2G, 3G, and future LTE, did we force all mobile
users to migrate to high end phones? Did we switch off mulika mwizis?

If the government cannot subsidize the set boxes, give Kenyans ample
time save for the gadgets.

At the pace some people at CCK and the ministry are moving, I would
not be surprised to learn they have tonnes of containers of setboxes
at Kilindini waiting to pounce on poor man's pockets.

On 20/12/2012, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the end, a frustrated government will enter into a deal with Huawei to
> mass produce and import low cost or subsidised FTA decoders, and Huawei
> will make millions in profit and Kenyans will have won the battle and lost
> the war.
>
> Somehow related, voter registration took 30 days. On day 30, huge queues
> were seen at centres at  8 pm, way past the 6 pm closing time for the
> exercise. For the other 29 days, clerks were idle, Facebooking and soaking
> in sun at the registration centres as few bothered registering.
>
> Meanwhile, I shall laminate this epic piece and hang it on a wall, to
> remind me that millions in the country have no access to 2G, despite 2G
> been the base of all GSM networks.
>
>> Thanks for thinking for consumers in a more broad and realistic spectrum
>> (including rural proletariats) beyond the minority but noisy middle to
>> higher income Nairobi CBD/Upper Hill techies  who are obsessed about 4+G
>> when millions of others can't access 2-G. There is nothing like "mass
>> ignorance" or "mass intelligence" on a matter of human/consumer rights as
>> ably articulated within Consumer Protection Act, 2012 (which took effect
>> on
>> December 13).
>


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