Why not give the fibre link cost figures simply like e.g. 256k shillings (a).. 512k shillings (b). etc... Add if you need our bandwidth 256k at contention ratio x:y shillings add shillings (z) etc..<br><br>Application, my earlier example, a firm just wants to connect their Nairobi- Mombasa branches to run an application and they don't satellite bandwidth. <br>Another (an ISP) needs the link to supply internet to their Mombasa clients.<br><br>CCK recently stated "information must be given in simple and plain English"<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;"> I think there is some confusion!<br><br>The international capacity is not transported to Nairobi by the fiber cable <br>in the ground! We transport the capacity that comes by SAt with the fiber to <br>Mombasa! So the fiber will not affect this.<br><br>As for Trunk costs,
they have dropped already substantially and are a <br>function of capacity uptake. You see, Maintenance costs and Capex for the <br>cable is constant, capacity is unlimeted, so the only factor that brings <br>down price is higher uptake and vice versa.<br><br>Rgds<br><br>Kai<br><br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "A. Wanjira Munyua" <alice@apc.org><br>To: <kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke><br>Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:50<br>Subject: [kictanet] ISP providers cry foul over bandwidth prices<br><br><br>A thought-provoking piece here Listers: ISPs in Kenya say their hopes that<br>they would pay significantly lower costs for bandwidth once providers<br>Telkom and Kenya Data Networks unleashed cable, are yet to materialise.<br>They wonder why. The thinking was that once these two providers replaced<br>satellite links with fibre between the two cities of Mombasa and Nairobi,<br>they would see a sizeable cut in prices they pay for their bandwidth.<br><br>Worth noting is that
these networks which KDN and Telkom have built, and<br>which ISPs say have failed to deliver the expected fall in prices,<br>represent a key link in Africa's fibre. The two companies are extending<br>theis fibre towards the Ugandan border, where it will link up with the<br>fibre owned by Uganda telecom and MTN Uganda, then run through Uganda to<br>the Rwandan border to link up with MTN Rwandacell's fibre.<br><br>KDN and Telkom Kenya are frontrunners in more than one venture to connect<br>the eastern coast of Africa to international fibre, and no doubt this<br>Mombasa-Nairobi link which Kenyan ISPs are grumbling about will play a<br>pivotal role - regardless of which marine cable goes live first. Question:<br>If the KDN and Telkom Kenya's Nairobi-Mombasa fibre has not resulted in<br>the benefits the industry expected, should we be optimistic that once they<br>hook onto international fibre we shall get the 60% or greater falls in<br>prices? What's to be done to assure the
benefits are forthcoming?<br><br>Wakabi<br><br>ISP providers cry foul over bandwidth prices<br>By Okuttah Mark, Business Daily, March 29, 2007<br><br> Defying predictions of cheap online access, Internet Service Providers<br>(ISPs) are yet to experience significant price reductions on bandwidth<br>charges since Telkom Kenya and Kenya Data Networks laid terrestrial optic<br>fibre between Mombasa and Nairobi.<br><br>Mr Sammy Buruchara, the managing director of ISP NairobiNet, said charges<br>levied by the two operators remain prohibitive, thus hindering their<br>expansion.<br><br>"There is no difference from what they are charging now to what we used to<br>pay for the satellite link," said Mr Buruchara, while referring to the<br>VSAT links which have been used in the absence of cable.<br><br>For a 2Mbps broadband link from Nairobi to Mombasa, Mr Buruchara said he<br>pays over Sh500,000 (US$7,142.) per month. Kenya has 23 ISPs with an<br>estimated 1.5 million Internet
users. Most are in Nairobi and Mombasa.<br><br>But an official at Telecoms disputed the charge.<br><br>Mr Patrick Njagi, a data service manager, said a combination of increased<br>competition and the fibre optic cables have reduced broadband prices by<br>almost 40 per cent since last October. "The price has drastically reduced,<br>especially in Nairobi because of stiff competition since the licensing of<br>various Public Data Network Operators (PDNOs) by the Communications<br>Commission of Kenya," he said.<br><br>So far CCK has licensed more than 14 PDNOs to build and operate<br>telecommunication Infrastructure such as fibre optic cables.<br>Advertisements Telkom Kenya has been running since the launch of its<br>Mombasa-Nairobi cable claim that its bandwidth prices have reduced by<br>half. Telkom Kenya's website states that rending a 2Mbps line from Nairobi<br>to Mombasa costs Sh700,000 (US$10,000) per month, exclusive of VAT.<br><br>"The prices are still quite high even
if they say they have reduced them,"<br>said Mr Buruchara. "It is still impossible to do video-conferencing. Who<br>can raise the Sh1.8 million for 10 Mbps per month currently being charged<br>by Telkom Kenya?" he asked.<br><br>But Telkom's Mr Njagi blamed the high Internet connection fee on<br>International prices. "Our subsidiary company JamboNet has very little to<br>do with the Internet bandwidth pricing," he said. "Those are determined by<br>the international satellite operators."<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br>kictanet@kictanet.or.ke<br>http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet<br><br>Please unsubscribe or change your options at <br>http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/kai.wulff%40kdn.co.ke<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br>kictanet@kictanet.or.ke<br>http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet<br><br>Please unsubscribe or change your
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