Whether an allegation or a fact, I wish to give this a reasonably<br> just response; with the individual consumer in mind: -<br> <br> If so then why does South Africa have 5,100,000 internet <br> users, Nigeria 5 million, Egypt 5 million, Morocco 4.6 million <br> while, with all fairness to the on-going Internet Market Study,<br> Kenya has just 1 million users says <br> http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats1.htm .<br> <br> Prohibitive costs are to blame, for example, the cheapest <br> point-to-point access (without bandwidth) is US$ 125 per month. <br> Add bandwidth costs and affordability and cost-benefits go out <br> the window. Surely Nairobi's local point-to-point link costs have <br> no relation "costly satellite internet". <br> <br> If the minister for finance were on this list, I would have pleaded <br> he considers allocating Internet constituency dev. funds in the <br> next budget if not to make outsourcing "accessible" to all <br> communities
throughout in Kenya.<br> <br> Utilising public, license-free ISM bands 2.4 and 5.8 GHz, <br> WiFi promises one true way for most affordable access <br> there being no license fee to anyone who wants to share <br> their internet link and invoices with their neighbours - a <br> wonderful ICT policy provision that opened up a hitherto <br> "for licensed" internet airwaves.<br> <br> BTW, Australian scientists demonstrated 6 Giga/per second <br>over WiFi <br> <br>This should interest you Brian! <br><br><snip><br> <br> * The CSIRO ICT Centre today announced that it has<br> achieved over six gigabits per second over a point to point<br> wireless connection with the highest efficiency<br> (2.4bits/s/Hz) ever achieved for such a system<br> <br> * At the demonstration, the team will transmit 16<br> simultaneous streams of DVD quality video over a 250 metre<br> link with no loss of quality or delays<br> <br> Dr Jay Guo, Director of the Wireless Technologies
Laboratory<br> at CSIRO said that this breakthrough is just a first stage towards<br> direct connections of up to 12 gigabits per second.<br> <br>< http://www.csiro.au/csiro/content/standard/ps2kj.html ><br><br><snip><br> <br>>Public Safety, Disaster Recovery and Urban Transit <br> >applications:<br> <br> see Celtel Malawi is still off air 5 days later, carriers should support emerging alternative communication infrastructure considering the Nairobi little tremor that incapacitated an otherwise wonderful point-to-point based infrastructure because we need these in disaster situations.<br><br>/Alex<br><br><b><i>Kai Wulff <kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3059" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font face="Verdana"
size="2">Did you know that Nairobi has the biggest WIFI deployment in Africa?</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Rgds</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Kai<br></font></div></blockquote><p>
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