<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"><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Hi,</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">I disagree with your </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">assertion</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> that cybercafes are closing down if anything they are mushrooming and in more seats that before, in the building where our offices are we used
to have a single cyber on the 2nd floor in the past 12 months 2 have opened on the ground floor replacing a bookshop and a pharmacy each with over 30 stations.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">The availability of mobile on the phone is actually a plus for the cyber business as it creates a more aware market who end up spending more time and money as they need to download staff, print, cd burn etc.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Unless you have an iPad the experience of browsing on your phone is still not as good as on a
large 17" screen.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Finally, many of thus opening cybers today have a better understanding of the business than the me too crowd that used to run them before. Any cyber cafe that does not charge automatically for printing is doomed to close soon.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">As more knowledgeable investors come into the cyber cafe business expect to see more of them coming up and with the right tools for monitoring and generating revenue such as protocol based billing. I visited a cyber in Rongai where billing was bandwidth based as they where using a Safaricom 3G
connection.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Regards<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> </font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Robert Yawe</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">KAY System Technologies Ltd</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Phoenix House, 6th Floor</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Kenya</font><br><br><div
style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Edith Adera <eadera@idrc.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, 2 March, 2011 19:12:16<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [kictanet] The Death of Cybercafes?<br></font><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Just back from Ghana where I was impressed to see that cybercafes are still alive (e.g. BusyInternet)...as my experience in Kenya is that it's hard to find a functional cybercafe within easy reach with cutting edge
services and programs (PDF etc)....most are closing down with Internet available on the mobile (with aggressive competition). So outside the office set-up and with minimal home connections...one has almost no options for innovation.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Is it a good thing that cybers are dying in Kenya and broadband is yet to reach homes? what needs to be done differently to inform our efforts on digital villages etc?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Edith</font></div>
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