[kictanet] Kenya could miss Vision 2030 broadband goal

Fri Sep 7 06:30:32 EAT 2012

Spot on....and Internet usage is a better measurement of growth as a country than subscription. We do need to educate our media somehow...we are willing starting with an open government portal and an up-to-date CCK website.

Nyaki

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 From: Francis Hook <francis.hook at gmail.com>
To: Catherine Adeya <elizaslider at yahoo.com> 
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Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya could miss Vision 2030 broadband goal

re: the internet figures, oft I have noted that reporters (and many others) cannot quite distinguish between internet connections/subscriptions and internet users which is probably why they allude to 10% (internet connections - close enough)...in reality internet users by mid 2011 were at 25.9%.   Connections/subscriptions (including those on mobile which are more than 90% of all internet connections) were abt 4.7 million around the same period.

Overall the better metric to measure access is internet users e.g. Univ of x can have a single broadband connection with 500 users, etc.   Or a SoHo can have a single mobile connection, create a hot spot and support 4-5 users, etc

On 5 September 2012 09:58, Catherine Adeya <elizaslider at yahoo.com> wrote:

Tim,
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>Thanks for this response as I wanted to confirm the statistics before responding comprehensively. It is a shame when our Media report on things without confirming the facts which are easily available these days.
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>CCK has done a great job of constantly updating the statistics (check out for July 2012 at http://www.cck.go.ke/resc/downloads/SECTOR_STATISTICS_REPORT_Q3_JUNE_2012.pdf)
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>Let us do some simple Mathematics, what is the population of Kenya? Even if we want to estimate it at about 40mill on the higher side then put this against 11,840,544 Internet users (by March 2012 and increasing)...I could easily say that is about 25%...where does the Star get facts of 10% by 2008 and STAGNATED!!!!! The 2012 figures are easily available.
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>When I read the article I kind of feel like throwing these recent statistics in
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>"The declining trend of satellite subscriptions was reversed during the quarter as the subscriptions increased from 669 the previous quarter to 787. The increase in subscription could be attributed to the need for operators to provide for redundancy as a result of the likely failure in the other modes of providing data/Internet services resulting from fibre cut and/or copper vandalism" (CCK, July 2012 Statistics).
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>Need I say more? We are doing well in Kenya and when we get negative coverage from our media it does worry many of those who believe in us globally.
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> Best Regards,
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>Nyaki
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>This cannot be so. Internet penetration surpassed 20% quite a while back. For example, another report I searched now (see attached), shows Kenya's Internet penetration being 28% by 2011 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users). I am more tempted to believe this than the story from the Star, which is not a mainstream media house. All we need to do is to check the official figures from CCK. Regards. tm
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>On 4 September 2012 13:51, Lucy Kimani <lkimani at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Bw. Mugo
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>>Please share the latest MTP.  I would like to review before commenting on the report below, but 
>>would love to hear your views since the postings on this seem to indicate you all may be caught 
>>between a rock and a hard place....
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>>Lucy
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>>>Kenya could miss Vision 2030 broadband goal
>>>Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:41 AM PDT
>>>Kenya released findings on the progress the country has made towards achieving the Vision 2030 goal or Internet connectivity of at least 17% of the population. However, the report shows that the...
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>>>http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2012/09/kenya-could-miss-vision-2030-broadband-goal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itnewsafrica+%28ITNewsAfrica.com%29 
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