[kictanet] National Broadband Strategy

[Walubengo J]

Bobby, Eng. Kariuki,

I happen to know the team of bright chaps who facilitated the production of the Natinal Broadband Strategy - and I can assure it was not done in some isolated nad exclusive dark room :-)

They tell me that in setting targets, on must be appreciate where we are today in order to project where you expect to b in nxt 5yrs. 5MB per USER by 2017 may look poor compared to the US but did you know that some of our newer Universities can only afford 10MB for their 3000+ students?

You must also differentiate between capacity (of technology/bandwidth)  vis a viz actual bandwidth projected to be USED. Right now in Kenya, our Operators have the technologies and capacities  to deliver even 10MB per USER for each of the 16m Internet users in Kenya. But do they? 

The answer is big NO. The average Kenyan uses cannot afford a fiber or wireless link of 10MB per month. In the broadband strategy we need to work on the dynamics that would make this average Kenyan afford and USE at least 5MBs per month.

Now u might be begin to see that even that 5MB per user per month by 2017 is not an easy target.

walu.

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On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 8:03 PM AST (Arabian) John Kariuki wrote:

>Robert, Listers
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>I would agree with Robert that 40 mbps in 5 years is a rather low target for urban areas and we should  achieve higher speeds in the next 2 to 3 years. 5 years in ICT is a very very long time!
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>John Kariuki.
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> From: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
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>Hi,
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>I recently went through the National Broad Band Strategy documents where it was indicated that we intend to achieve a connectivity speed of 40 mbps in urban areas in the next 5 years.
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>This might seem like quite an achievement but starting today some of the Internet users inChattanooga, Tennessee in the USA will be experiencing 1 Gbps speeds to their homes, it seems either we are aiming very low or the strategy is a cut and paste from an era long gone which is a clear indication of what happens when you sit in a dark room and write a strategy but with no organised group to turn to for assistance what was the other choice?
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>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/17/how-chattanooga-beat-google-fiber-by-half-a-decade/#!
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>Regards
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>About Chattanooga: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga,_Tennessee
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>Robert Yawe
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