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<DIV align=justify><FONT size=2 face=Calibri>Bwana Muraya,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=justify><FONT size=2 face=Calibri>Thanks very much for the bold
question on the abbreviations used by Aki and others. It would be good for the
contributors to appreciate that this List has people from various backround
including farmers and it would be unfair for one to contribute in Greek without
explaining what they mean. Communication is meaningless unless others undestand
what you are saying. I agree with Aki that someties techies forget others
are listening. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=justify><FONT size=2 face=Calibri>I am not trying to attack anybody.
What i mean is for ICT to make meaningful contributions in the economy, we
must promote it as an enabler just like we use water, electricty to meet
our business and domestic needs.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=justify><FONT size=2 face=Calibri>Otherwise I believe
Fibre Summit is coming at the appropriate time and let's use the forum to
move the country and the region forward.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=justify><FONT size=2 face=Calibri>Akich Kwach</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=murigi.muraya@gmail.com
href="mailto:murigi.muraya@gmail.com">S.Murigi Muraya</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
title=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke
href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 11, 2009 8:48
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [kictanet] East African
Fiber Summit</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Aki,<BR><BR>Please explain what a POP is? How does it work?
What are tiered services?<BR><BR>Michuki Mwangi could also educate some of us
about the KIXP. Am aware he is on travel until next week so .. Why is locally
switched (KIXP) data (content) cheaper than internationally routed data
(content)? Maybe Aki could explain while we wait for Michuki to tell us more
next week. Why would we host our apps locally rather than 'out there'? Am sure
this will go deeper @ skunkworks but many on this list also need help
too.<BR><BR>Kind Regards<BR><BR>SMM<BR><BR><BR>aki wrote:
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<DIV>Good morning, I'm a techie and a regular contributor on skunkslist. I'd
like to add some contributions. Any views below are personal and not meant
to cause any negative actions etc.. :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>I received an email attachment on the above subject detailing the
program of the event. Though I'm not in a position to attend, I wanted to
share my thoughts. After reviewing it, the program does not seem to hold
much on what and where fiber should be heading in kenya. The program seems
to revolve around a concept " when fiber arrives ". There are many
excellent contributors on the program list and I hope that the summit will
take things to much higher levels of discussion and focus on progress
development through commitments. As I mentioned in my earlier contributions
on other lists, Kdn and Safaricom ( including Onecom ) made history on July
27th. Safaricom took it further by holding event meetings for cyber owners
outside Nairobi while Kdn was also able to push seacom packets all the
way to the ugandan border. The summit should, in my view,
present the strategies and solutions on offer based on techology,
expansion and deployment of the fiber Nationally and across the
border. </DIV>
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<DIV>This also brings me to my second point of contribution : TATA and Point
of Presence in kenya :</DIV>
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<DIV>I was quite glad when recently TATA announced that they would be
putting up a POP in kenya for tiered services. To have this pop in kenya was
quite an important achievement and goes to show that Fiber will make Kenya a
communications regional hub for the region. However, it has recently
announced that TATA have gone with Access Kenya on this development. While I
have nothing against any service provider or in this case Access Kenya, I
believe that TATA have have made a disappointing start on the POP. As far as
I know, Access Kenya does not at the moment represent itself as a National
Operator nor does its services spread nationally nor across the border into
Uganda or Rwanda. I'd have thought that TATA would be considering KDN, TKL
or even Safaricom ( Onecom ) for its POP. I hope in future POP operators do
realise the impact of their decisions. </DIV>
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<DIV>Corrections are welcome. </DIV>
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<DIV>Rgds.</DIV>
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