[kictanet] Kenya has faster mobile internet speeds than the United States — Quartz

[Harry Delano]

I believe PDNO's are  here with us on the list, and I suppose time is nigh
to hold a healthy discourse going forward that's geared at among other
things expeditiously and judiciously bringing down the last mile loop/p2p
costs.

It's been a misnomer that bringing down internet costs focuses only on
externally hosted content, and this needs to be revisited now if we truly
want to localize content that's truly local and which in essence should be
hosted locally in the first place.

On the plus side for the data network providers, they should see an uptick
in consumer data services uptake as a natural consequence for taking such a
step in this brilliantly right direction, while at the same time putting to
productive use such an enormous idle capacity that's presently going to
waste.
This should also spur local content development/consumption,increased
innovation thereby creating the much needed job opportunities especially in
the startups sector.

Hope someone out there is listening..!

Harry

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Noah via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Job Muriuki via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> The high cost of local loops is just alarming. It's cheaper buying
>> internet connections and setting up VPNs than buying actual loops.
>> I keep asking internet service providers to offer local traffic twice or
>> thrice as fast for each megabit of international traffic in order to
>> utilise tge idle local capacity but none is willing.
>>
>
> There is an unconscious belief that the internet in inherently foreign and
> as such products specific to local needs are overlooked, which products
> could potentially help develop the local internet.
>
> Noah
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