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

Wed Oct 16 09:36:16 EAT 2013

@Brian,

this is where we go wrong. We (East Africans) pay top-dollar to be members of ITU and then we consistently ignore their research output for various reasons - including lying :-). In which case we should at least stop being members and save the money for something else. Incidentally, ITU has been around for donkey years doing policy research in telecomms and we should at least give their report some little respect and attention.

But if we doubt them, we should produce alternate research like what Eng. Dr. Zaipuna O. Yonah, PhD has done with Research ICT Africa report- whic shows that actually .TZ has the most affordable internet services. From the quick reading of that I can see that perhaps what Research ICT Africa failed to do was that they did not "normalize" their figures.

What this means is that if a coke or any product is 1USD in the US and it is also 1USD in Kenya, that coke is still considered more expensive in Kenya because of differentials in national income levels i.e. they are not equally affordable . Put differently an American finds it easier to spend the 1USD than the Kenyan would.

So if one was to "normalize" the Research ICT report against national income levels, we would most likely arrive at the same (ITU) conclusion.

walu.

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On Tue, 10/15/13, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kictanet] [eThinkTankTz] Uganda has the cheapest Broadband Internet in E-Africa.
 To: jwalu at yahoo.com
 Cc: "I-Network Uganda" <i-network at dgroups.org>, "eThinkers" <ethinktanktz at yahoogroups.com>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
 Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 11:29 PM

 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!

 Regards
 __________________________________
 Eng. Dr. Zaipuna O. Yonah, PhD
 Consulting Engineer in ICTs
 P. O. Box
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 Salaam
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 Tel: +255-784-786429
 Fax: +255--732-920133
 Email: engzaipuna at ieee.org
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 On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:16 PM,
 Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com>
 wrote:

       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

 @ CS  Matiang'i - this could be part of your bedtime
 reading  collection :-)

 walu.

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