Robert,<br><br>See my comment inline<br><br clear="all">Regards<br>...........................................................<br>Josphat Karanja, <br><div style="text-align:left"><font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><i><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"><span>@Jasphat</span></div>
<div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"><span>Thanks for the update, </span></div>
<div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"><span>A few questions that I would appreciate it if you answered.</span></div>
<div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"><span>1. How many of your member institutions provide free WiFi access within the campuses?</span></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div>90% of the members have some wi-fi solution of some sort. The difference is in the reach of the network. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><span><font size="3">2. Does KENET have a </font>collocation<font size="3"> facility where the universities can host applications?</font></span></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div>We have always been offering co-location services for our members at our two data centers and the 6 PoPs established within the country. Most University web site are either hosted at KENET or have a mirror at KENET. <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<div><span><font size="3">3. Does KENET have a plan to work with the mobile providers to offer subsidised connectivity to the KENET network?</font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div>We work with all infrastructure providers and are in constant discussion on how to enhance user access to our network. As I had mentioned earlier, this is our focus in the immediate future. <br>
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<div class="im"><div><span><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span><font size="3">Regards</font></span></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"> </div>
<div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt">Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi,
00200<br>Kenya<br><br></div></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt">Tel: <a href="tel:%2B254722511225" value="+254722511225" target="_blank">+254722511225</a>, <a href="tel:%2B254202010696" value="+254202010696" target="_blank">+254202010696</a><br>
<div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif"> <div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1">
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Josphat Karanja <<a href="mailto:karanjajf@gmail.com" target="_blank">karanjajf@gmail.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> robert yawe <<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>> <br>
<div class="im"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> <br> </div><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 9:21<div>
<div class="h5"><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Internet "Kadonye" charges<br> </div></div></font><div><div class="h5"> <br><div>@Robert,<br><br>At present, KENET is
already acting as an exchange point for all University and research traffic. Traffic from one KENET member to the next stays within the KENET network and does not even get to KIXP. As for peering with other research institutes, we are already peering with GEANT in London which gives us access to the world wide research network.<br>
<br>Under the Africa Connect project (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.africaconnect.eu/pages/home.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.africaconnect.eu/pages/home.aspx</a>), the idea is to bring the Africa research peering "local" within Africa and also to have local international peering points for international traffic.<br>
<br>In the near future we are looking for ways to give students and research access to this network when they are out of campus.<br><br clear="all">Regards<br>...........................................................<br>
Josphat Karanja, <br><div style="text-align:left"><font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><i><br></i></b></font></div><br>
<br><br><div>On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:44 AM, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif"><div style="font-size:12pt"><span>@Gitau</span></div>
<div style="font-size:12pt"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt"><span>Your argument is like asking companies to stop using PBX systems because the cost of mobile calling has dropped drastically. </span></div>
<div style="font-size:12pt"><span><br></span></div><div><span><font size="3">It is not a </font>philanthropic<font size="3"> gesture for Google to find ways to keep Kenyan traffic local especially in the case of Youtube, if they can see the sense why can't
we?</font></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt"><span><br></span></div><div><span><font size="3">Keeping local traffic local was the main mandate of organisations like KIXP and the soon to be formed government exchange point.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span><font size="3">KENET for all intents and purposes is supposed to be the exchange point for universities and </font>tertiary<font size="3"> institutions with the ultimate goal of covering all institutions of learning which will only be effective if its access is based on a different model from bandwidth based access billing.</font></span> </div>
<div><span><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span><font size="3">Let us not become blind to American based connectivity models and develop our own home grown solutions let us not loose our peculiarity by not continuing to be ingenious.</font></span></div>
<div><div><span><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div>Regards</div><div style="font-size:12pt"> </div><div style="font-size:12pt">
Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br></div></div><div style="font-size:12pt">
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<div style="font-size:12pt"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> John Gitau <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:jgitau@gmail.com" target="_blank">jgitau@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 22:53<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Internet "Kadonye" charges<br> </font><div><div>
<br><div><div><div>I don't buy it. The cost per international mb is quite cheap. the cost of broadband will drastically drop the moment we have more than three strong players using different technologies. Or just widespread wifi - even if it's community driven.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Differentiating billing by whether international or local would have worked better back when we were on satellites. Today it only makes sense maybe for someone hosting a very
latency sensitive application. The engineering effort to differentiate this traffic might not really make 'money' sense...techies would have fun with it though...</div><div><br></div><div>Gitau<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div>
<div><br>On Dec 6, 2011, at 9:50 PM, Josphat Karanja <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:karanjajf@gmail.com" target="_blank">karanjajf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>@Robert,<div><br></div>
<div>The idea would be to have differentiated billing for local and international content. That would encourage more local hosting.</div><div><br></div><div>Also not that at present and with the current set-up, local access links remain expensive compared to the international link. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br clear="all">Karanja<br>
<br><br><div>On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Henry Okatch <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:hokatch@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:hokatch@gmail.com" target="_blank">hokatch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I agree with you Robert especially the bundle usage<div><br></div><div>I remember sometime back KDN had such project of hosting local content and making it easily accessible but they moved away from retail to corporate and I guess it just became a "white elephant"</div>
<div><br></div><div>This I believe would have a great ripple effect of encouraging more development of local content and greatly reduce the cost of bandwidth seeing that there is alot of local content being appreciated online.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just my 2 cents</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Henry<br><br><div><div><div>On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:54 PM, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank"></a><a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12pt">
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<span>Hi,</span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times,serif"><span><br></span></div><div><span><font size="3">I am one of the those very fortunate people who rarely buy Internet access by the </font>bandwidth or minute as I enjoy a flat rate unlimited access whether at home or in the office. </span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Today morning I needed to use one of the dongle devices as I needed to work off-site at one of my few clients who do not have dedicated internet access. </span></div><div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>I loaded airtime on the device and proceeded to purchase a bundle, within 3 minutes of launching my
browser (all 12 tabs) I noticed that I had already utilised 1.2 MB @ a rate of Kes. 0.83/- per MB. Note that I was yet to do any useful work as I waited for my desktop to settle. As you might have guessed, by the time I was ready to do some serious income generating work the bundle was over.</span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span>It is now clear to me why so many of our youth who should be making productive use of the Internet are stuck to using only facebook because the costs for access are either subsidised or free which reduces an entire generation to a single web site.</span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span>The kadonye economy definitely transcends to technology products at which rate the technology divide is not narrowing any time soon. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I assume that the cost of bandwidth is mainly related to the international leg therefore is it possible to have a bundle
that allows you unlimited access to local sites.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Such a model would encourage the development and hosting of content locally. KENET could set-up peering with educational sites across the world whose access would be treated as local and our students would be able to benefit from the Internet. </span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Please accommodate this rant from an occasional dongle user.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Regards </span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times,serif">
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