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

Thu Oct 17 08:15:21 EAT 2013

Thanks Walu! Very helpful indeed. But it reminded me of a book I once read
called: "The Enemy called Average" by John Mason!  It is always misleading
when you  report by numerical rankings instead of group rankings especially
using averages!

In my early years of learning signal processing, I learnt that the
mathematical operator called average is really a FILTER that only extracts
the DC value from the noisy signal (data). It throws out ALL THE NOISE if
indeed you have a very very large (infinity) data sample. Else the average
is very noisy! This is the catchy 22 in the integrity of the reported
figures!

Once again, thanks Walu.

Regards

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Far from it...this is not "dollarization" of our economies.
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> It is just that researchers have to find a way of defining "affordability"
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> ITU defines affordability as a function of average incomes. Consider the
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> Internet link goes for 50Euros per month, which of these two countries
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> 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
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> Country B is therefore considered to have cheaper internet services (even
> though internet does costs the SAME in Euro terms across both countries).
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> 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:
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> 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
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> Dear Walu,
> Are you suggesting we approve with open arms the
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> http://clknet.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/PB1-Dollarization-of-the-Tanzanian-Economy.pdf/
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> Regards
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> Eng. Dr. Zaipuna O. Yonah, PhD
> Consulting Engineer in ICTs
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> this is where we go wrong. We (East Africans) pay top-dollar
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> In which case we should at least stop being members and save
> the money for something else. Incidentally, ITU has been
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> Research ICT Africa report- whic shows that actually .TZ has
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> the US and it is also 1USD in Kenya, that coke is still
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> affordable . Put differently an American finds it easier to
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> On Tue, 10/15/13, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [kictanet] [eThinkTankTz] Uganda has the
> cheapest Broadband Internet in E-Africa.
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> To: jwalu at yahoo.com
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> Cc: "I-Network Uganda" <i-network at dgroups.org>,
> "eThinkers" <ethinktanktz at yahoogroups.com>,
> "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
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> Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 11:29 PM
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> 9:15 PM, Zaipuna Yonah <zaipuna.yonah at gmail.com>
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> How about the attached report? Sometimes, you got
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> Eng. Dr. Zaipuna O. Yonah, PhD
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> Email: engzaipuna at ieee.org
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