<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">True that.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Again. The report wasn't about Penetration but about speeds..So maybe the report needs to substitute Kenya with Nairobi? :-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Ngigi Waithaka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ngigi@at.co.ke" target="_blank">ngigi@at.co.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Ali,<div><br></div><div>100 KMs from Nairobi, upcountry, in a relatively built up area, the speeds are horrendous....</div><div><br></div><div>Was benchmarking this (<span id="m_7954741408569932038goog_1572930506"></span><span id="m_7954741408569932038goog_1572930507"></span><a href="http://www.kionjo.com" target="_blank">www.kionjo.com</a>) over the weekend and on both Safaricom & Airtel the load times for home page was 1-2 mins which is about 5KB/s considering an initial download is abt 300KBs<br><br>Those Akamai figures I am not sure where they got them from but its definately not anything close across the country...</div><div><br></div><div>Rgds</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">True that Barrack. </div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">The point though was not penetration rate but speed. This is something (penetration rate) that needs addressing soonest. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_7954741408569932038m_-8414629113256772967gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
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<br></span><div><div class="m_7954741408569932038h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Barrack Otieno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Ali,<br><br></div>This is not surprising , be that as it may, i hope we can get such glorification of our connectivity from our Counties since the quality of connectivity in most places beyond Nairobi is wanting.<br><br></div>Best Regards<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_7954741408569932038m_-8414629113256772967h5">On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_7954741408569932038m_-8414629113256772967h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif">Listers</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Interesting arguments going on around this subject. Apparently the Australian Prime is miffed by the suggestion that we can have faster Internet connections than Australia.. Surely that's not possible!!!??? :-)</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(59,59,59)">When</span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/digital-doom-threatens-australia-where-internet-speeds-lag-kenya" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(255,102,0);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"> <em style="box-sizing:border-box">Bloomberg</em></a><span style="color:rgb(59,59,59)"> highlighted that Kenya’s internet was ranked faster than Australia’s in the latest Akamai’s State of Internet report, the Australian Prime Minister did not take it lightly. To understand the backstory, Australia invested $38 Billion in a National Broadband Network (NBN) infrastructure that was meant to “spearhead a digital revolution.” The situation on the ground is that the project has been mismanaged by the government leading to costs overrun and construction delays.</span></font><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(59,59,59)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3b3b3b">Read on:-</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(59,59,59)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(59,59,59)"><a href="http://www.techweez.com/2017/10/09/australia-v-kenya-broadband-speeds/" target="_blank">Surely Kenya can't have faster connectivity than Australia!! </a></span></font></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div class="m_7954741408569932038m_-8414629113256772967m_8227618461148168994m_5496359347826447673gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">Ali
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