[kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance

Fri Dec 21 14:14:38 EAT 2012

Kivuva,
We shall be grossly be discriminating against those living in Kibera and
Mathare if we do not give them last mile broadband.  I visit these places
practically every month and I know what I am talking about.

Please find out by yourselves.  There is much more broadband consumed in
those places than in Lavington.  We are deceiving ourselves in an attempt
to represent the poor.  My work is such that I know the needs of the
people.  We shall be making a far greater impact by freeing up the 700/800
Mhtz from broadcasters.

I bet my life on this.

Ndemo.

> 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).
>
> Stephen Mutoro
> www.cofek.co.ke
>
> On Dec 12, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:
>
>> Digital broadcast is great, no doubt about that, and the benefits are
>> boundless. But let us not be elitist in the way we conduct the
>> exercise.
>>
>> You can free the airwaves, and create thousands of digital channels
>> and jobs, but if I in Kibera and Mathare, I cannot afford to buy a
>> setbox in the next year, I will be forced to use by TVbox as a stool.
>>
>> Let those with money migrate, and let the poor enjoy the poor quality
>> analog signal in peace until set boxes are dirt cheap.
>>
>> On the other hand, to reach a consensus, give us cheap subsidized
>> digital set boxes, say at 500bob, marked GoK, and give us adequate
>> time to buy them.
>>
>> Remember, 2000bob is my dinner for a month.
>>
>> You switched off my phone, which I bought with hard earned cash, then
>> you switch of my TV! Next you will switch of my radio, then ...
>>
>> On 12/12/2012, bitange at jambo.co.ke <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
>>> Listers,
>>> Consumer Federation of Kenya (COFEK) has gone to court to stop the
>>> planned
>>> Digital Switchover in Nairobi at the end of this month.  This is most
>>> unfortunate considering the fact that the current analogue broadcast
>>> has
>>> been the most discriminating.  Majority of Kenyans have not seen the
>>> level
>>> of communication that Digital offers (this is what the constitution
>>> demands).  In the new platform we have seen more vernacular channels
>>> delivering news in a language that people understand and relate to.  It
>>> therefore surprises me when an organization such as COFEK moves to
>>> court
>>> to protect an elitist broadcast platform.
>>>
>>> Further every one new channel creates more than thirty new jobs.  There
>>> are more than one hundred and fifty new applications awaiting clearance
>>> to
>>> start digital broadcast.  Twenty of these are already on air.  If we
>>> get
>>> two hundred new broadcasters, we shall have achieved our quest for
>>> having
>>> a pluralistic and diversified broadcast environment.  In whose interest
>>> is
>>> COFEK advancing the agenda of maintaining monopolistic practices in
>>> Kenyan
>>> Media? Does COFEK really understands the seriousness of unemployment in
>>> Kenya?
>>>
>>> The cost of not migrating is far too great than biting the bullet now
>>> and
>>> enable frequency spectrum to be used in more productive and inclusive
>>> manner.  The benefits of mobile operators moving from 2G to 3G are
>>> glaring.  We need to scale up to 4G and create a robust last mile that
>>> will reduce the rural urban digital divide; that will create an
>>> enabling
>>> playing field when we start delivering new local content to schools
>>> country-wide.
>>>
>>> Most of the world has migrated and they fully understand why we need to
>>> free up spectrum. EAC member states agreed on the December 31st
>>> deadline
>>> and Tanzania for example has committed itself to this agreed deadline
>>> despite not having a completed the national roll-out of the digital
>>> signal. In Kenya we have adopted a phased plan starting from Nairobi.
>>> Technology changes every six months and Kenya must remain at the
>>> technological edge in order to remain the true hub of Africa.  We seem
>>> to
>>> be exercising freedom without any responsibility.
>>>
>>> Ndemo.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> This is where we are going wrong, the digital migration has nothing to
>>>> do
>>>> with digital TV sets its about how the signal will be transmitted,
>>>> please
>>>> try and see the bigger picture here.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When we moved from analogue internet connectivity where you needed a
>>>> modem
>>>> to the digital transmission where you needed a DTU/ADSL/Dongle why
>>>> didn't
>>>> you please with the government to stop the importation of Pentium
>>>> processor based computers or 14" monitors or AT keyboards so that
>>>> users
>>>> could transition?  If you remember the ISPs never even gave us a
>>>> transition period and some never even implemented analogue
>>>> connectivity.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is the same case with the digital TV migration, you do not need a
>>>> digital TV to benefit from the new method of transmission all that you
>>>> are
>>>> changing is the equivalent of your analogue modem with a digital
>>>> receiver
>>>> and nothing more, also remember that this transition is a world wide
>>>> project and it would be foolhardy to try and stop the oncoming train.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As Kenyans, we have proven time and time again that we are resilient
>>>> and
>>>> innovative, we turned off "fake" phones and on the following day they
>>>> where getting reactivated thanks to the power of google, turn off the
>>>> analogue signal tomorrow and we shall have 500/- decoders available
>>>> for
>>>> sale along the streets of Nairobi, keep postponing the switchoff and
>>>> there
>>>> will be no meaning uptake of the digital devices, have you registered
>>>> for
>>>> election yet?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All this noise from the entrenched media houses that we are
>>>> propagating
>>>> has nothing to do with if Kenyans with black and white TVs can afford
>>>> to
>>>> buy the decoder but more on trying to delay the shift of broadcasting
>>>> power to a more open platform, so before you come to the defense of
>>>> Linus
>>>> and his ilk find out whose agenda you are promoting, instead of coming
>>>> forward and responding to the discussion going on here of which I am
>>>> sure
>>>> they are listening, they send mercenaries .
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Ndemo, I again say kudos and tell you keep the course and do what
>>>> is
>>>> right for the Nation and avoid being distracted by those with selfish
>>>> agendas, deliver on this and Konza has a better chance of seeing the
>>>> light
>>>> of day.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Robert Yawe
>>>> KAY System Technologies Ltd
>>>> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>>>> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>>>> Kenya
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: meshack emakunat <memakunat at yahoo.com>
>>>> To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
>>>> Cc: Meshack <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2012, 16:48
>>>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear list
>>>> I read this thread and all i see is the "the cart before the horse". I
>>>> believe Mr gitahi was referring to affordability rather compatibility
>>>> and
>>>> adaptability. @Robert, don't you think Kenyans should be given enough
>>>> time
>>>> to migrate rather than have a paradigm shift in tech use. I think that
>>>> we
>>>> should ban the importation of analog TV as somebody suggested earlier
>>>> then
>>>> will have a gradual change till 2015
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