[kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance

Sat Dec 22 18:37:36 EAT 2012

Dear listers

I feel that the government can kill two birds with one stone

	* bird number one is the reduction in the unemployment rate in the country by facilitating for the manufacture of thas stbs locally, i mean how many graduant and innovators are kept off simply because the platfoam to grow there ideas is so little for them to fit in. the government can utilise the brains from the locall universities to kill this bird.
	* bird number two is the migration from analogue to digital as so argues this discussion thread. I am sure all understand the benefits of the moving from analogoe to digital. besides these bird number two may also act as an enabler for bird number one by creating more employment.
but first, for us to kill these btwo birds we will have to set a platfoam and prepare ourselves otherwise if we go in harriedly we may scare both orf them and end up with nothing. all am saying is may the cck carry out an awareness to the public about the whole digital migration and the benefits of it. am sure such an exercise can not take more than one month (considering that most recently we have carried out voter registration exercicse in 30 days only). during this time people will be able to budget for the stbs meanwhile the brainees in the universities are producing the stbs. Its a vicious cycle for economic development that we so much choose to ignore as kenyans. for example"the coffee industry" which everyone knows what happens. 

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 From: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
To: memakunat at yahoo.com 
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Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance

Hi Kivuva,

Please note that for the government to subsidize the STBs they will need money which they will raise through taxes which means that at the end the same people who did not have the money to buy the unsubsidized decoders will pay through additional taxes, therefore which is the lesser evil?

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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 From: Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk 
Cc: Kictanet Mail list <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2012, 12:16
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance

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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