<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Folks, same gospel but a different preacher, actually a better preacher.....</div><div><br></div><div>Eric here</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 31 Oct 2009, at 03:08, S.Murigi Muraya wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Walu,<br>
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The USD 2.00 per monrh is certainly not viable YET even in developed
nations. For whatever reasons (folly, stress, peer pressure) many of us
in Africa spend our meager means on non essentials (to peace and
productivity) such as such as 'kumi kumi', 'dogo dogo's, mdudu's here
and there.... <br>
<br>
One way to go is micro-offer's of 1GB for about KShs 150. This
translates to 10GB of data for KShs 1,500.00 (USD 20.00). With network
(efficiency) technology improvements it is only a matter of time before
this happens. Do netbooks today not have more power than mainframes of
yester year?<br>
<br>
Who over the next 5 years is dumb enough to deny 200 Million African
households 1GB of data for USD 2.00? The current Safaricom offer is
even surpassing that today in rural areas where there is low density -
more bandwidth available to fewer people.<br>
<br>
Someone recently wrote in a Daily Nation we need to start looking at
Africans as hands to work not as mouths to feed....We just need to stop
doing dumb things so that more of us in Africa can have USD 2.00 for
1GB of data.<br>
<br>
Walubengo J wrote:
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trust me its true...KDN is pushing bandwidth at very competitive rates
to the so called 'end-users'. But at 200USD that is about 15,000Ksh
per 1MB which is TWICE the average salaries of Kenyan
citizens(mwananchi). Meaning the 'end-users' defined here are NOT
mwananchi but corporates/SMEs, etc. Put differently KDN really plays at
the wholesale layer (Kai may object but...) and their price drops are
being enjoyed mostly by retailers (ISP/ASP).<br>
<br>
We shall only celebrate meaningful and effective price-drops when for
example AccessKenya/UUNET/Safcom etc say they are giving you unlimited
1MB links at around 2USD (Ksh 150) per month - if we are to take
developed economies GDP per capita and their pricing for monthly
broadband internet and recalculating for our context.<br>
<br>
But I always have the rejoinder that I will understand if this does not
happen tomorrow - since we are really are yet to mature the parameters
that guarantee such wishful pricing. However, we should have specific
plans that define the steps and timelines we are undertaking to mature
such parameters - local content, affordable last-mile access, IXPs,
Usage, just to mention a few.<br>
<br>
walu.<br>
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--- On <b>Sat, 10/31/09, Eric M.K Osiakwan <i><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:emko@internetresearch.com.gh"><emko@internetresearch.com.gh></a></i></b>
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From: Eric M.K Osiakwan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:emko@internetresearch.com.gh"><emko@internetresearch.com.gh></a><br>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Uproar Over Internet Costs in Kenya<br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a><br>
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke"><kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke></a><br>
Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 8:59 AM<br>
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<div class="plainMail">Evidence is the name of the game,
though we are not in court....:-)<br>
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TGIF.<br>
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Eric here<br>
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On 30 Oct 2009, at 00:08, alice munyua wrote:<br>
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> KDN, For example "is currently selling submarine capacity,
delivered to the user at between 220 and 600 USD per 4 Mbps! This is an
effective price of between 55 to 150 USD per Mbps depending on volume".<br>
> <br>
> Best<br>
> Alice<br>
> <br>
> ------Original Message------<br>
> From: alice munyua<br>
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> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Uproar Over Internet Costs in Kenya<br>
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> Hi Eric<br>
> Thank you for this posting. A question though, who wrote this
piece and where did they get their information apart from quoting P.S.
Ndemo?<br>
> <br>
> Best<br>
> Alice<br>
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> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:14:14<br>
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