This may be helpful: http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/03/12/broadband-prices/ On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Alex Gakuru <gakuru@gmail.com> wrote:
The local high prices conversation always ends up blaming external transit traffic and offering IXP as the solution.
Be that as it may, the same international bandwidth cost to services providers dropped by 90 per cent when TEAMS cable was connected. But the cost saving only resulted in marginal price reductions, at least initially, and lately been rising.
Draw analogy to MTR reduction by the regulator and operators refused to lower mobile phone prices to consumers.
Let's face it, we have crooked internet companies out to fleece us dry.
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com>wrote:
That is very informative MacFie. The point that is a major stabling block in the region is "the high cost of external transit traffic".
Probably the local operators can comeup with very cheap rates for local traffic peering at the KIXP so that local businesses, innovators, and techies can realise the advantage that local content has on their expenses. This way, we will have stakeholders insisting on content being hosted locally
On 11/08/2013, Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> wrote:
I note that story is from 2009. Quite a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. In the USA the FCC eventually derived its Open Internet Order http://www.fcc.gov/guides/open-internet with its three pillars, transparency, no blocking, and no unreasonable discrimination.
The "unlimited" issue was addressed earlier by a different department the FTC who delivered a smackdown to ISP provider Sprint that the rest of the industry took to heart, http://www.ftc.gov/os/closings/staff/070808sprintnextelclosingltr.pdf
As far as data caps go, many ISPs welcome them as it gives them an opportunity to institute tiered pricing. Evidence shows that many people pay more than they have to, just in case they need it. This is considered gouging in some quarters to the point where there is sustained opposition see http://stopthecap.com/
In the case of the Australian NBN, often touted as an exemplar, caps were in from the word go due to the, like Kenya, high costs of external transit. . Take a look at the pricing plan of on major Aussie ISP iinet.. http://www.iinet.net.au/internet/broadband/nbn/plans/ These are complimented by an extensive local "freezone" of cap-free hosts, many of them from major content providers, http://www.iinet.net.au/fibre/freezone.html
In the USA the original spokesmen for Net Neutrality - namely Tim Wu, who coined the term, and Susan Crawford - have both moved on to be more concerned with antitrust issues, as, for example, the power of ISPs to selectively provide cap exemptions becomes effectively an end run around neutrality.
j
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Davis Onsakia <mautidavis@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear all,
How 'neutral' is Kenya's mobile service providers networks for accessing the Net? There has been cases where some providers have discontinued 'Unlimited Internet' access offers due to the 'violation' of the terms under which these offers were made in the first place. Does CCK have any policies in regard to net neutrality for ISPs and MSPs alike in Kenya?
Some background information about network neutrality, you can read this piece by the Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/14517422?story_id=14517422
*Regards and many thanks, Davis M Onsakia
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