[kictanet] KENYA POWER - The Answer to Universal Connectivity for all?

[Mark Mwangi]

As all this is going on Safaricom is busy laying fiber all over and I bet
they will price their service appropriately to recoup their costs. We will
be dancing this dance for a while.

I have blogged http://wp.me/p24k5U-2b  about this before since I consider
KPLC to be an infrastructure company not necessarily a power distribution
company. Core business is to supply utilities and limiting themselves to
power is only shackling them unnecessarily.


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

> Exactly Robert.
>
> I think we should stop mediocrity and start walking the talk.
>
> This business of corporates in this country 'wagging the dog' needs to
> stop. I understand  there is a policy in place to ensure that players in
> the industry share infrastructure. Lets stop paying lip service to major
> issues affecting this country and start acting.
>
> ICT Ministry in conjunction with the county governments should start
> enforcing this without further delay.
>
>
> Ali Hussein
>
> +254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113
>
> "Kujikwaa si kuanguka, bali ni kwenda mbele" (To stumble is not to fall
> but a sign of going forward) - Swahili Proverb
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Oct 14, 2013, at 9:57 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> @Ali,
>
> All county capitals have access to KPLC infrastructure why is it then that
> we are laying near underground cable to those locations?
>
> Now that is the question.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>
>
>   On Sunday, 13 October 2013, 7:00, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>  Listers
>
> KenyaPower earned Kshs 1 billion last year through leasing dark fibre to
> telcos. A nice little side business.
>
> Does Kenya Power have the capacity and bandwidth (pun intended) to execute
> this widely? A Senior Manager is on record saying:-
>
> “If we were to reach 2 million homes and charge only Sh500 per house, this
> would be Sh50 billion per month. So, that is where the potential is,” Kenya
> Power’s chief manager for information technology and telecommunications,
> Samuel Ndirangu, said.
> The power distributor’s acting managing director said the firm is now
> focusing on expanding and leasing fibre optic to its client list in a bid
> to diversify revenues.
> Question: I have absolutely no problem with Kenya Power 'dabbling' in
> Internet service provision. I would however caution this new 'focus' on
> connectivity when only 20% of Kenyans have access to electricity in the
> main centres and less than 10% n some rural areas.
> Unless of course we are starting to see the emergence of what this list
> has all along advocated:- the consolidation of fibre optic cable across the
> country with all players having a stake in the role out to ensure cheaper
> and widely more accessible high speed internet connectivity. If this is the
> case the I'm all for it...
>
> http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Kenya-Power-to-lay-to-fibre-optic-cables-to-boost-revenue/-/996/2028888/-/fdmanpz/-/index.html
>
> Ali Hussein
>
> +254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113
>
> "Kujikwaa si kuanguka, bali ni kwenda mbele" (To stumble is not to fall
> but a sign of going forward) - Swahili Proverb
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
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Mark Mwangi

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