<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">This is the Egyptian model! <br><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru@yahoo.com><br>To: feanywhere@yahoo.co.uk<br>Sent: Monday, 23 April, 2007 8:57:56 AM<br>Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: [ke-internetusers] Free PC and cheap Internet for SMEs and Home Users<br><br><br><br><b><i>Alex Gakuru <gakuru@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:51:01 +0300<br>From: "Alex Gakuru" <gakuru@gmail.com><br>To: ke-internetusers@bdix.net<br>Subject: [ke-internetusers] Free PC and cheap Internet for SMEs and Home<br>
Users<br><br> [This brightens a new dawn for Kenya's connectivity. I have often<br>argued that lesser city traffic jams and higher national productivity<br>can be achieved by taking internet outside the city centre, Nairobi<br>currently having 80% of Kenya's internet. Many are bound to choose<br>working from home to save on expensive city office rent overheads and<br>"outsourcing" will definitely benefit considering the time differences<br>become less of a problem, security is also a consideration.<br><br>Forecasting on this possibility at a stakeholders workshop on 22 March<br>2007, I warned that it
would only take "one clever ISP" to realise<br>this enormous small business and home user waiting market away from<br>the current "corporates-only" internet (used between 8am to 5 pm and<br>half-days on Saturdays which drops at lunch-time. (see the first graph<br><span>at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.isoc.or.ke/connectivity.html">http://www.isoc.or.ke/connectivity.html</a> - website under</span><br>development)]<br>-----------------------<br>[Business Daily]<br><br>ISP targets home users with free PC's<br>Written by Okkutah Mark<br>Monday, 23 April 2007 [NAIROBI]<br><br>While most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) target corporate users,<br>one new entrant into the online market is banking on capturing<br>residential, small and home business users with a unique offer: a free<br>computer.<br><br>The company, Alunite, says most Kenyans would love to be connected to<br>a high-speed DSL Internet connection from home, but the lack of<br>affordable personal computers,
and high bandwidth costs have kept most<br>out of the loop.<br><br>Lucy Kimani, the
ISPs executive director said Alunite was partnering<br>with Kenya Data Networks (KDN) and Keysde, a local company involved in<br>computer assembly in which Keysde will provide PCs, under a guarantee<br>that the ISP settles the bill within 90 days.<br><br>KDN will provide the DSL linkage to it's Metro optical fibre.<br><br>"As an ISP we are linking the home subscribers to the KDN's link which<br>will provide them with a high-speed connection," said Ms Kimani. "We<br>also realised that a majority of people don't own computers, and<br>that's why we looked how we could solve this problem."<br><br>The deal does come with a catch though. In exchange for a free<br>computer, subscribers must sign a one-year agreement to subscribe to<br>Alunite's Internet sevices, which cost 5,945 per month.<br><br>The computer—an Intel Pentium 1.2 Ghz PC—retails for Sh10,300 in local shops.<br><br>But Ms Kimani said it was more than just a freebie.<br><br>"We eliminate the hassle of dealing with
a separate connectivity<br>provider and provide attentive customer service," she said. "Our<br>company coordinates all aspects of the installation of the service<br>including site inspection."<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>ke-internetusers mailing list<br>ke-internetusers@bdix.net<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bdix.net/mailman/listinfo/ke-internetusers">http://www.bdix.net/mailman/listinfo/ke-internetusers</a></span><br></blockquote><br><p>
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