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

Wed Oct 16 10:34:12 EAT 2013

Far from it...this is not "dollarization" of our economies.

It is just that researchers have to find a way of defining "affordability" across different economic domains in order to eventually provide an objective ranking.

ITU defines affordability as a function of average incomes. Consider the following: 

If average incomes in country A = 100Euros (just to avoid the dollar focus :-), while in country B it is = 200Euros. And If in BOTH countries a 1mbs Internet link goes for 50Euros per month, which of these two countries enjoys cheaper internet services?

50Euros in Country A happens to be 50% of the average income while 50% Euros in Country B is only 25% of the average incomes. Would you like to live in a country where internet costs 50% of your salary or where its 25% of your salary? Country A is considered to be twices as expensive as Country B.

Country B is therefore considered to have  cheaper internet services (even though internet does costs the SAME in   Euro terms across both countries).

not sure if its clearer or worse :-)
walu.
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On Wed, 10/16/13, Zaipuna Yonah <zaipuna.yonah at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kictanet] [eThinkTankTz] Uganda has the cheapest Broadband Internet in E-Africa.
 To: "Walubengo J" <jwalu at yahoo.com>
 Cc: "Brian Munyao Longwe" <blongwe at gmail.com>, "I-Network Uganda" <i-network at dgroups.org>, "eThinkers" <ethinktanktz at yahoogroups.com>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
 Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 10:04 AM

       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:

       @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

  32736

  Dar es

  Salaam

  Tanzania

  Tel: +255-784-786429

  Fax: +255--732-920133

  Email: engzaipuna at ieee.org

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 Lives! & Advancing

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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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