[kictanet] Access Gaps: What would it take? A proposal

Job Muriuki muriukin at gmail.com
Tue May 29 20:11:53 EAT 2018 

@Wangari,
I have followed the Mawingu story and paid them a visit and the kind of
funding they get allows them to get service based on the expensive rates.

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On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 7:32 PM, WANGARI KABIRU via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> https://www.techweez.com/2018/03/27/ms-appfactory-launch/
>
>
> Reading this, there are numerous options being explored.
> Which, even for this one must be capital intensive.
>
> USF has the opportunity to drive this agenda via Community Networks.
>
>
> Be blessed.
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> Regards/Wangari
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> 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".
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> On Tuesday, 29 May 2018, 08:50:15 GMT+3, Job Muriuki via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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>
> Barrack, If you are a small player in the Internet and data market in
> Kenya you know how punitive local rates are and the market is an oligopoly
> where prices have been "fixed"
> What Collins is suggesting is a better and efficient use of the existing
> fiber infrastructure specifically NOFBI.
>
> We have so much idle fiber cores going into their 10th year but the cost
> to access them is too expensive for smaller players to take it up as the
> main players opt to dig up more fiber every year due to the costs of
> leasing.
>
> The Government (both National and counties) are not keen to change the
> environment so we need to push the narrative of using NOFBI as it was
> intended and open up the market.
>
>
> Regards,
> Job Muriuki,
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> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 6:59 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Hi Ali,
>
> ImHO we are discussing a public interest issue that might need a boost
> possibly from the Universal Service fund. Most of the ISPs that peer at
> KIXP are commercial entities that do so for commercial reasons not
> necessarily from a public interest perspective. During the ICT week, CA
> actually confirmed that the statistics we receive are normally population
> centric as opposed to being based on landmass. As infrastructure starts
> opening up the country such as the SGR, the International Airport in Isiolo
> , the Dual Carriage way to Mombasa, and rural electrification, people will
> start moving back to this areas that lack coverage and were hitherto
> considered unprofitable. I am yet to fully understand the long term
> business case of this projects funded by the Universal Service Fund and
> would like colleagues likes Adam to weigh in on the subject but it is my
> humble opinion that Community owned networks might be the way to go. Maybe
> Collins can share how they are surviving in Mashinani. I know the Telcos
> will claim that their network coverage extends to 90 % of Kenyans but we
> now know that this 90 % is in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, we need to
> change the narrative. Ensure the unconnected are connected and that the
> costs of the connections are low by all means.
>
> Regards
>
> On Tue, 29 May 2018 06:44 Ali Hussein via kictanet, <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke > wrote:
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> Collins
>
> Just curious. Is there a regulatory bottleneck that would need to be
> unlocked? Reason I'm asking is why do we need to wait for the govt to
> mandate anyone? Can't KIXP get on with it? Do we really need 'permission'
> for this?
>
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> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Collins Areba via kictanet <
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> @Ali & Others.
>
> What does it take to push and actualize this? My suggestion would actually
> follow a very simple approach:
>
> a) GOK, through CA mandates KIXP and other exchanges to provide
> countrywide service with presence at each of the 47 County headquarters as
> initial POPs.
>
> b) Tier 1’s bid to operate and maintain redundant dark fibers to serve
> these IXPs, so that those IXP’s have multiple backhauls via multiple
> vendors.
>
> c) IXP's run an open access platform, offering standardized “Port charges”
> for 1G, 10G, 100G….. at each of these pops.
>
> d) Tier 2 and ASP’s then pick this traffic from any of these points.
>
> Immediate benefits:
>
> a) IP transit in Kilifi @400 bob a meg. :-) Instead of current IP transit
> at EADC at 400 plus local loop at KES 5000. *Packets cost eleven times
> more from Nairobi to Kilifi than they cost from Nairobi to Guangzhou. That
> cartel needs to die for affordable access to be realised.*
>
> b) Tier 3’s will have room to actually grow and become Tier 2 and Tier 1.
>
> c) Players will be forced to innovate to remain relevant, resulting in
> better Value for money.
>
> d) Fibers will be utilised way more efficiently. Fewer fibers also means
> less downtime. e.g a single fiber
>
> On 28 May 2018, 4:14 PM +0300, I.kasyoki--- via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke >, wrote:
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> Eagerly following on this as well.
>
> This will definitely be a game changer in regards to service penetration
> to marginalised areas.
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> ---- On Mon, 28 May 2018 11:52:57 +0300 *kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
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> I Second Collins on this approach.
> Considering NOFBI is state funded (unless am wrong) so it's the Kenyan
> taxes funding it and that KIXP via Tespok be given the mandate to offer
> ports at fixed rates accessible anywhere the NOFBI fiber terminates.
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> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Collins Areba via kictanet <
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> Hi all,
> I have a rather interesting suggestion to the powers, power brokers and
> brokers that be. This is with regard to flattening the access environment
> countrywide. If you are at CA: Indulge me for a moment.
>
> 1) KIXP has proven over time that it is possible, from a technical
> standpoint to significantly drive traffic locally and in an organized
> manner. This works well where there is an XP, in the current scheme of
> things: Nairobi, and if TKL doesnt pull the plug, Msa.
>
> 2) If KIXP were operated like a distributed network, with switches in
> Kilifi, Mombasa, Garsen, Garissa, Thika, and all major towns in the
> country, so that providers would visit the nearest exchange point and get a
> port, loop charges would all but disappear.
>
> 3) All thats needed is for GOK to give KIXP a dark fiber pair into all
> major towns, and in exchange, for KIXP to offer 1G, 10G, 100G, etc at
> subsidized rates in any of these towns, and for NOFBI hosts to be “strongly
> asked” not to strong arm entrants by levying crazy cross connect or other
> barriers to entry.
>
> Maoni?
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