[kictanet] [Skunkworks] Milestone: Half of Kenyans are now online, how long till half of them use Bitcoin?

[Josiah Mugambi]

@Mwendwa interesting analysis there. Another angle to consider is what the
premium Kenyans place on Internet? Say compared to basic voice calls. I
know for certain that my son's nanny spends more time on the phone than me.

Additionally how does internet use compare across different demographics?
What my strategy professor used to call the 'xaxa' generation spend quite
some time (and money) on FB...

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Credible statistics! Kibera was the biggest slum in the world until we did
> the 2010 census. There were close to 10 million people living there, while
> the entire Nairobi was just close to 4.5 million. Talk of Hyperbole.
>
> Ali, I don't think Zuku internet has any significant coverage. They have
> setup infrastructure only in the affluent surbubs of the big cities in
> Kenya. And not all residents of those surbubs are subscribers.
>
> For once I admit to struggling in getting decent affordable Internet to my
> house. I rely heavily on Safaricom for home Internet (it has the best
> coverage in my area although its still crappy and cannot even load a WebEx
> connection) despite Safaricom being obscenely and immorally expensive.
>
> That brings me to my question. What can be done to provide reliable
> affordable broadband Internet to the masses? By affordable, the ratio of
> cost of Internet to income per capita should be reasonable. What do I mean?
> Kenya's per capita income is about $2790. If the cost of Zuku is $466 per
> year (zuku ksh3500 per month*12months/90 dollar exchange rated ), then that
> puts the cost of Internet at a bigger fraction of the average household
> income earned. Now will Kenya's buy Food or Internet?
>
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Josiah Mugambi
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