[kictanet] KENYA POWER'S HUGE APPETITE FOR DEBT IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER

Thu Jan 12 00:18:44 EAT 2017

Blessed Wednesday!
This may inspire halleluya moments as it may lead to bodies such as "Kenya Rural Internet Board" and " Internet Mashinani" to diffuse the net into the rural and slum areas with public accountability in quality, fair price, accessibility and governance.
With major government services now delivered via digitised mode, access to the internet and related ICTs should be made available freely or on subsidy as other public services such as education and healthcare.
The internet to the rural areas and slums beyond the big city hype requires patient capital. Capital more patient than reliance on private enterprise whose investors have their rightful commercial interests. Sole reliance propagates the digital divide which may also be mitigated by the civil society investment into community networks.
Be blessed.
Regards/Wangari---
Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth".

 On Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 16:24, Peter Mwanyika via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

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Subject: Re: [kictanet] KENYA POWER'S HUGE APPETITE FOR DEBT IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER    To add on to this conversation it would be great to hear how this will compliment the Broadband Strategy. And whether KPLC is really the right entity to execute this fibre strategy seeing as how they are performing in execution of their core mandate - Power Distribution.  Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113     Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim    

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On 11 Jan 2017, at 11:18 AM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: 
It looks like the taxpayer is building a parallel National Grid Fibre as is on the MoU "memorandum of understanding between the Chinese company ZTE and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum which the parties have signed to finance and build a national grid fibre"    It's only important the several government agencies inform the public how this new fibre is complementing NOFBI, how NOFBI has run out of capacity, shortcomings of NOFBI, etc. Are the different government agencies working together, or are they in competition?    The more cables we have, the more capacity we have, but the pain is, the end user will still have to pay the capital expense in deploying them.     Answers from ICT Authority would assure the community. 
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Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
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    On 11 January 2017 at 11:24, Timothy- Coach- Oriedo via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: 
>From a product perspective, this project appears to be motivated by a vertical integration move by Kenya Power. Backward to be able to better utilise the power grid infrastructure vide riding the fibre on the existing power grid, Forward to be able to bundle solutions (power & data) to the already existing customers. Due to the economies of scale and already existing infrastructure (distribution, subscription, customer service) this is a welcome move which if well managed will lead to reduced product costs(both power & data), higher penetration and efficiencies through reduced redundancies and customer service. For this benefits to be achieved, the process needs to be creatively implemented devoid of regulatory and political interference.     Cheers    Tim 

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   On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Tony White via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: 
AFAIK, Kenya Power already has fibre backbone, used for their own
network for management and control - and extra capacity (dark fibres)
are already leased to other service providers.

I think this project is much more than this - ie. FTTH.  I certainly
hope so.  Whether the end-user is charged directly by Kenya Power (who
would then become an ISP!) or some third party, sijui.

Cheers,
Tony

On 11/01/2017, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> Hi Ali,
>
> I read in the news some times back that this was a new business line
> of Kenya Power to take advantage of the grid  to provide a fibre
> backbone. It appears the extra space on the link will be sold to
> TELCO's and Bandwidth Service Providers. Looking at the way the
> undersea cables were deployed, my opinion is the more the merrier, it
> will create competition whose end result will be affordability due to
> price differentiation.
>
> My thoughts
>
> Regards
>
> On 1/11/17, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> Listers
>>
>> My attention has been drawn to this article in today's nation. I will not
>> dwell on the financial side of this story at the risk of boring people on
>> this list. My attention was rather drawn to a part of the story which has
>> interesting implications on the National Broadband Strategy which was
>> launched a few years ago with much fanfare during Hon. Matiangi's tenure.
>>
>> To quote the article:-
>>
>> *The question is pertinent because I just recently came across a copy of a
>> memorandum of understanding between the Chinese company ZTE and the
>> Ministry of Energy and Petroleum which the parties have signed to finance
>> and build a national grid fibre access on Kenya Power’s transmission and
>> distribution network.*
>>
>>
>> Kenya Power's fibre ambitions
>> <http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenya-Power-s-huge-appetite-for-debt-is-a-recipe-for-disaster/440808-3512708-format-xhtml-8c48rrz/index.html>
>>
>> I'm curious.
>>
>> 1. Does this new network compliment the NOFBI?
>> 2. What is the business plan for this new network?
>> 3. Does anyone have any details on this project?
>> 4. Is the MOICT coordinating this with the Energy Ministry?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> *Ali Hussein*
>>
>> *Principal*
>>
>> *Hussein & Associates*
>>
>>
>>
>> Tel: +254 713 601113
>>
>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>
>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>
>> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>> <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim>
>>
>>
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>>
>
>
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