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

Wed Oct 16 10:04:21 EAT 2013

Dear Walu,

Are you suggesting we approve with open arms the mammon called
dollarization?
I am just curious!
http://clknet.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/PB1-Dollarization-of-the-Tanzanian-Economy.pdf/

We surely have a long way to go in creating our own information even though
we have our own knowledge about issues like this.

Keep thinking and discussing...

Regards

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> So if one was to "normalize" the Research ICT report against national
> income levels, we would most likely arrive at the same (ITU) conclusion.
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> On Tue, 10/15/13, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> It's a lie, I am here and
> frustrated with high costs of broadband...
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> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at
> 9:15 PM, Zaipuna Yonah <zaipuna.yonah at gmail.com>
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> 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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> Regards
> __________________________________
> Eng. Dr. Zaipuna O. Yonah, PhD
> Consulting Engineer in ICTs
> P. O. Box
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> Dar es
> Salaam
> Tanzania
> 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>
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> This comes as a suprise. One would have thought Kenya and TZ
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> conne Submarine connectivity/Gatewyas at Mombasa and Dar
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> 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
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