<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Hi Alex,<br><br>Explain one issue to me, how will the marine cable increase the remittances from the diaspora, they are sending 3.9 billion over slow, expensive satellite links why should we reduce this by spending 7 billion to land the fiber?<br><br>Alex, all I ask is can you give me a logical reason why we should spend 7 billion to land this fiber?<br><br>I am aware this discussion is academic but it should not stop us from questioning the rational.<br><br>Regards<br><div> </div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>KEnya<div> </div><div>Tel: +254722511225<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size:
12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Alex Gakuru <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com><br>To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk><br>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Sent: Friday, 30 November, 2007 7:37:39 AM<br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic<br><br>But Yawe,<br>[Sorry for this late response, this message only got to my inbox a<br>short while ago]<br><br>On Nov 28, 2007 8:06 AM, robert yawe <<a ymailto="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> The diaspora makes up less than 5% of the population and many of them
add no<br>> value to us, yet you are more concerned about how we can communicate
with<br>> them instead of how to make it possible for my children to talk and
see<br>> their grandmother in Mbita point without requiring to make the trip.<br>><br>Not quite so. Diasporans send sizable chunks of home for Mbitarians
consumption.<br><br>"The most recent data available indicates that remittances by Kenyans<br>reached a historic month-on-month high in June when Sh3.9 billion was<br>sent into the country."<br><<a href="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4622&Itemid=5822" target="_blank">http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4622&Itemid=5822</a>><br><br>Though you are right also about a national fibre network would enhance<br>far flung families bonding and save our Mbitarian business lexicon<br>travel expenses ( i.e. help in converting remittances into investments<br>rather than consumption).<br><br>"It is estimated that full compliance with the licensing requirements<br>costs Kenyan businesses Sh5 billion annually."<br><<a href="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4621&Itemid=5822"
target="_blank">http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4621&Itemid=5822</a>><br><br>Agreed! Local fibre saves locally and international one boosts<br>remittances hence my argument elsewhere, "we need both pentium and<br>penicillin" and it the juglers' job ( Read Ndemo:) to give us the<br>optimal mix.<br><br>Notwithstanding, absent fibres remains no excuse for inefficient and<br>opaque service delivery by those employed by the public and all<br>government agencies.<br><br>Sawa?<br></div><br></div></div></div><br>
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