@walu I have been shouting about this for years. <br><br>But rather than expecting the big companies to do it, why don't we create the policy environment for community owned micro- ISPs? Create a mesh network that can actually bring increased income to the people who use it? As I always have said, Nairobi is not ALL of Kenya and we are leaving our villages behind.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top">Am somewhere 15km from Embu, some Masinga Dam resort (the provincial hq of Eastern Province).� And there is no internet to talk about here!� The ping test to <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">google.com</a> gives a return trip of 60,000ms compared to in Nairobi of 300ms. In layman terms access to the Net, 15km from Embu is 200times slower than in Nairobi.<br>
<br>This is a classic example of the internal digital divide between the urban and the rural environments.� At a policy level, the Universal Access Policy and regualtions were supposed to address this imbalance. How far did this (not) go?<br>
<br>Am ofcourse on Safcom Modem, the others Airtel, Yu produce the same unreliability. And dont ask me about Telkom Orange...because their internet� doesnt� seem to feature in these parts of the world ;-)<br><br>walu.<br>
send from my transmission "tree" after 1hr of
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