<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
To think that Nyerere spoke of Kenya as being man eat man ... Looks
like they are following in our footsteps now.<br>
<br>
Question: Is it viable to offer monthly throughput @ USD 2.00 to the
masses, yet? Not to justify mobile networks (rarely use them due to the
factors you just explained below), 1GB at USD 2.00 is a way to package
it for the masses who earn 2-5 USD per day - without taking you telcos
and ISP's out of business.<br>
<br>
With the Safaricom offer, users in low density areas, are hitting
speeds (throughputs) of up to 1Mbs while in more densely populated
areas experience much less. So while some can download up to 5GB per
day, others can only download 500Mb for the same KES 200. Safaricom has
been wise not to to be too specific in their offer - just calling it
unlimited downloads for KES 200 per day. <br>
<br>
That said, look forward to hearing you speak at the Skunkworks meeting
on Thursday, Nov 3, 2009. Come with your marketers with pricing
information about FTTB, routers .... <br>
<br>
SMM<br>
<br>
kai wulff wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:007001ca5a00$6cf277d0$46d76770$@wulff@kdn.co.ke"
type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Verdana;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
h2
{mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"\00DCberschrift 2 Zchn";
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:bold;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
span.berschrift2Zchn
{mso-style-name:"\00DCberschrift 2 Zchn";
mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"\00DCberschrift 2";
font-family:"Cambria","serif";
color:#4F81BD;
font-weight:bold;}
span.E-MailFormatvorlage19
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue;
font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none none;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
<div class="Section1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">And
I get complaints about the charges in Kenya …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">There
is another confusion ..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">Some
people confuse packages (like 1GBYTE) with throughput like
1Mbps …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">If
you have 1Mbps duplex you can receive:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">1
Megabyte in 8 seconds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">7.5
Megabyte in a minute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">450
Megabyte in an hour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">10800
Megabyte in a day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">326700
Megabyte (319 Gigabyte) in a month (30.25 days)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">Since
you can send the same amount you could have a volume of 638
Gigabyte with a 1Mbps pipe …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">So
if you take 1Mbps at 600 USD you will arrive for a package of
10Gigabyte at less than 1 USD …..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div
style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";" lang="DE">Von:</span></b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";" lang="DE">
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kictanet-bounces+kai.wulff=kdn.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet-bounces+kai.wulff=kdn.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:kictanet-bounces+kai.wulff=kdn.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke">mailto:kictanet-bounces+kai.wulff=kdn.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>] <b>Im
Auftrag von </b>Brian Munyao Longwe<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:47<br>
<b>An:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke">kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [kictanet] Tanzania first to lower internet rates?
huh?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">TTCL drops pricing to 1MB for $2415/month? and
that is low?
Read on.....<br>
<br>
First East African country to lower internet rates? hmmmm.....<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2>Tanzania First to Lower Internet Rates<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p>Tanzania Telecommunication Company Ltd customers will from this
month enjoy
a 50 per cent cut in Internet charges, making Tanzania the first East
African
country to lower Internet charges. TTCL chief executive officer Said
Amour
Said, told The EastAfrican that the lowering of charges follows the
firm's
connecting to the Seacom submarine fibre optic cable. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>"TTCL has reduced its Internet prices effective from October 1, in
order to pass on this cost saving benefit to the end users, and the
high
customer expectations of reduced costs on Internet services have
finally been
met," he said. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The new prices will see high volume Internet users including
banks, large
businesses and corporations, government agencies and other institutions
enjoying a substantial Internet bandwidth cost reduction as customers
will get
the same capacity of bandwidth at a third the current prices. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Under the new structure, a client who buys 1Mbps of Internet
capacity for
Tsh9.2 million ($7,000) will now buy the same capacity for just Tsh3.14
million
($2,415). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>For small and medium businesses like cyber cafes, the price has
been slashed
by 50 per cent. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>According to Mr Said, customers who were buying 5GB for $200
(Tsh200,000)
will now buy 10GB for the same amount of money, and that all Internet
subscribers in this category would continue to get high speed of up to
4Mbps
through their TTCL fixed lines. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>According to the new tariff, non-commercial ordinary clients will
enjoy a
new package with unlimited use for a monthly price of Tsh45,000 ($ 43)
with a
speed of up to 256Kbps. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>"It is an ideal service mostly for the common man because it is
affordable and guarantees continuous usage," explained Said. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>(Source: The East African) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all">
<br>
-- <br>
Brian Munyao Longwe<br>
e-mail: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:blongwe@gmail.com">blongwe@gmail.com</a><br>
cell: + 254 722 518 744<br>
blog : <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://zinjlog.blogspot.com">http://zinjlog.blogspot.com</a><br>
meta-blog: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mashilingi.blogspot.com">http://mashilingi.blogspot.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<pre wrap="">
<hr size="4" width="90%">
_______________________________________________
kictanet mailing list
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet">http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a>
This message was sent to: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:murigi.muraya@gmail.com">murigi.muraya@gmail.com</a>
Unsubscribe or change your options at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/murigi.muraya%40gmail.com">http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/murigi.muraya%40gmail.com</a>
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
</body>
</html>