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<DIV align=justify><FONT face=Calibri>Walu, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=justify><FONT face=Calibri>I have been receiving such direct
marketing mails from Safaricom. One thing i noted with concern; are such
products developed/informed based market research, i doubt if ordinary
Kenyans would have made such proposals. In my view, this is like pushing
products/services down the customers throat. Even with those "wonder
speed", COST is stil a fundamental factor especially for the SMEs under
which majority of Kenyans fall. One fact is the operator is ignoring the
public expectations - speed without cost is just but a fallacy. Thank
you for making the GDP comparison which the operators and regulators always
ignore, both should aprreciate internet and information are basic needs if we
have to achieve the 2030 dream and as such those in the sector should not just
be focussing on being declared the highest tax payers. Could someone from
Safaricom let us know whom they were targeting with such offers?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=justify><FONT face=Calibri>Have a blessed week</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=justify><FONT face=Calibri>Akich
Kwach </FONT></DIV>
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<A title=jwalu@yahoo.com href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">Walubengo J</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
title=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 26, 2009 9:10
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [kictanet] [Skunkworks]
Safaricom to introduce unlimitedinternet service</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>very interesting <A
href="mailto:analysis...@200ksh">analysis...@200ksh</A> unlimited
internet gives you 6,000Ksh per month as some of you noted - almost
100USD per month. Almost like in the US -BUT the US GDP per capita is
about 50times higher than .KE. So we must adopt some weighting to
get the equivalent pricing in kenya.<BR><BR>Put in another way, Kenyans
should work towards 50x less the US monthly rates (of 100USD) for
broadband internet i.e. 2USD per month for unlimited broadband
internet. It wont happen tomorrow, maybe 2030? But am glad the
operators are tweaking all possible combinations as the 1st step in
seeing how to move in that direction...<BR><BR>walu.<BR>--- On <B>Sun,
10/25/09, Bernard Mwagiru <I><bmwagiru@gmail.com></I></B>
wrote:<BR>
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Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re:
[Skunkworks] Safaricom to introduce unlimited internet service<BR>To:
"Skunkworks Forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke><BR>Date: Sunday,
October 25, 2009, 12:55 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv2038470949>Thats Kbps not KBps...<BR>./bernard<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Bernard
Mwagiru <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="/mc/compose?to=bmwagiru@gmail.com"
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class=gmail_quote>My peak is approx 260KBps. Average 140
KBps...<BR>However,<BR>I don't doubt the capacities provided by the
submarine fiber cables...Thats no longer a constraint now....My
biggest worry is at the radio interface. The biggest bottleneck in
any GSM/UMTS network is at the BTS/Node B level...You can have STM-1
capacities on the transmission but the bandwidth in the wireless
medium diminishes exponentially as the number of users per cell
increases. Also voice is always given a priority so again this
should add to the congestion(remember the free calls ?)<BR><BR>Also,
there's no info on how long this promo is(or whether it is a
promo)...<BR><FONT color=#888888><BR><BR>./bernard</FONT>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Dennis
Kioko <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="/mc/compose?to=dmbuvi@gmail.com"
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class=gmail_quote>10 gigs at what rate Bernard? I think they now
have extra bandwidth on<BR>Teams, hence the unlimited
product.<BR><FONT color=#888888><BR>--<BR></FONT>
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