To spice up the debate and get us going i found the following information from the White African (<a href="http://whiteafrican.com/2011/02/18/kenyas-mobile-internet-by-the-numbers-q4-2010/">http://whiteafrican.com/2011/02/18/kenyas-mobile-internet-by-the-numbers-q4-2010/</a>) which are statistics drawn from the CCK Sector Statistics Report (<a href="http://www.cck.go.ke/resc/statcs.html">http://www.cck.go.ke/resc/statcs.html</a>) for quarter 4 2010 <br>
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Highlights of Q4 2010:</h3><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.57143em 1.57143em; list-style-type: square;"><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">There are 22 million mobile subscribers in Kenya</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
9.5% mobile subscriptions growth, which is increasing over the previous quarters</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">6.63 billion minutes of local calls were made on the mobile networks</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
740 million text messages were sent</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Prepaid accounts for 99% of the total mobile subscriptions</li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">The number of internet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">users</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was estimated at 8.69 million</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">The number of internet/data<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">subscriptions</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is 3.2 million</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Broadband subscriptions increased from 18,626 subscribers in the previous quarter to 84,726</li></ul></span></span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Barrack Otieno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Listers,<br><br>
<p style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: black;" lang="EN-US">What role has mobile networks played in providing Internet access
to Kenyan citizens and what needs to be put in place to promote mobile Internet
and enhance local content development?</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; color: black;" lang="EN-US">What initiatives are needed to ensure that sufficient spectrum is
available for mobile networks to provide effective Internet access for various
services?</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p>
<br>The floor is open, on Monday, which is officially day 2, we will discuss the role and impact of Mobile Payment platforms.<br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Barrack O. Otieno<div><a href="tel:%2B254-20-2498789" value="+254202498789" target="_blank">+254-20-2498789</a><br>
Skype: barrack.otieno</div>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Barrack O. Otieno<div>Afriregister Ltd (Kenya)</div><div><a href="http://www.afriregister.com" target="_blank">www.afrire</a><a href="http://gister.bi" target="_blank">gister.bi</a>, <a href="http://www.afriergister.com" target="_blank">www.afriregister.com</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.afriregister.com" target="_blank"></a>ICANN accredited registrar<br>+254721325277</div><div>+254-20-2498789<br>Skype: barrack.otieno</div><br>