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

Thu Jan 15 14:02:40 EAT 2015

Mark

I entirely agree with your deductions hence my caveat about thumbs suck research. :)

There is a lot of planning that can go wrong with inaccurate data. As we build infrastructure etc we must be cognizant of the fact that the ecosystem is not complete without all sorts of services that compliment it. One of the key things missing here is accurate data.

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> On Jan 15, 2015, at 1:51 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Mwendwa, the  best placed organisation to mainstreaming cable internet is Kenya Power. Drop a fiber endpoint at every new building they connect to the power grid. It could be live with their own service or dark for lease to the likes of zuku or Safaricom. the companies can take care of the interior cabling. 
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> Kenya Power is a service provider not an electricity company. If every building with a power connection had a fiber connection irregardless of whether it is used or not then the story of the last mile would be moot. 
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> If we insist Safaricom, zuku and whomever else lays their fibre then the cost will remain high. 
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> Ali, I am still not convinced. Just try and count the connections available to you and similar peers. You could find your circle of friends controls upwards of 500 connections that are all counted as different individuals. Much the same way Safaricom counts every SIM sold as a new subscriber. 
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>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> @Mark
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>> I'm fairly certain that at least 13.5m Kenyans are online. 
>> 
>> My thumbs suck research :) tells me that. The other day I got a Facebook invite from my Watchman...:)
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>> Without proper stats I'm afraid we will be reduced to such anecdotes to extrapolate how many Kenyans are online. Ipsos also does a fairly good job on this.
>> 
>> Ali Hussein
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>> "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>>> On Jan 15, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Josiah Mugambi via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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>>> @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... 
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>>>> 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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