<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Ali,<br><br>Let us address the pink elephant in the room and hope that their are on poachers within, why is Safaricom digging up our walk ways and roads to lay fresh fiber?<br><br>Regards<br><div> </div><div>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>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<br> <div style="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;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robert yawe <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> Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 4:40<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Shared fiber optic infrastruture<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv8366559126"><div><div>Robert</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing. This article highlights the issue that this list has championed for the last year or two. It's a no-brainier and its already being done in other parts of the continent.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe Fiona of TESPOK can shade some light on why its not being done in Kenya? Or maybe it is? And we are not aware of it? The cost implications are humongous and the benefit to end users obvious in terms of reduced costs of bandwidth not to mention how this dovetails with the aspirations of Universal Access.</div><div><br></div><div>Can the ICT
Ministry enlighten us on this critical infrastructure question? <br><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;">Ali Hussein</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;">CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd</span></div><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;">Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd</div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;">+254 713 601113</div><div><span style=""><br></span></div><div><span style="">"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb</span></div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On May 28, 2013, at 10:11 PM, robert yawe <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div
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