[kictanet] Lack of Public Internet hot spots in Nairobi

[Kivuva]

We are still STRUGGLING to provide always on running water, which is a
FUNDAMENTAL human necessity.

Broadband would be far fetched. Probably we use technology to monitor water
pipelines and minimize wastage

On 2 May 2012 13:04, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:

> You raise an interesting subject, broadband as a human right, we are yet
> to get there, thats the future.
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Other cities have well developed last mile networks including fiber and
>> copper, which are able to carry lots of traffic.
>>
>> Here we have poor last mile infrastructure, with heavy usage being
>> offloaded on networks which are not designed for last mile, such as 3G
>> networks, hence Safaricom doing away with unlimited Internet.
>>
>> In short, if you did the same here, the usage will be quite high. There's
>> no free Internet, someone is paying for it. Unless you convince the city
>> council to build such a network here ...
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