[kictanet] [eThinkTankTz] Uganda has the cheapest Broadband Internet in E-Africa.

Tue Oct 15 23:29:31 EAT 2013

It's a lie, I am here and frustrated with high costs of broadband...

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Zaipuna Yonah <zaipuna.yonah at gmail.com>wrote:

> How about the attached report? Sometimes, you got to find a comparative
> approach to make sense out of these studies. Sometimes it matters who
> reports.....But the customer knows the truth!
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> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Folks,(apologies for cross-posting)
>>
>> This comes as a suprise. One would have thought Kenya and TZ by virtue of
>> "owning" the International Internet conne Submarine connectivity/Gatewyas
>> at Mombasa and Dar respectively, they would offer the cheapest Internet
>> costs.
>>
>> But according to the latest 2013 ITU report that has been tracking and
>> measuring affordability of internet, UG is ranked no 139, TZ at no 143 and
>> Kenya at no 149 globally in terms of affordability.
>>
>> Cost of broadband internet in Kenya is put at 49% of the Gross National
>> Income(GNI) compared to .UG at 32%. Put differently it costs an average
>> Kenyan half(50%) his salary to connect to a broadband internet link. In SA
>> it is about 4% of their GNI.
>>
>> Those who can withstand the statistics/readings can pull the Executive
>> Report at
>>
>> http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/publications/mis2013/MIS2013-exec-sum_E.pdf
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>> @ CS Matiang'i - this could be part of your bedtime reading collection :-)
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>> walu.
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