Kivuva
Indeed. This issue has become very vital to ensure Universal Access at affordable prices.
During the launch of the Broadband Strategy a few weeks ago a lot was said about Universal Access, the issue of putting together regulation to ensure that Service Providers use the same infrastructure to lay pipes etc. Fact is this:- as the regulator keeps on talking the Service Providers are digging..where will policy meet action?
Lastly you know that Net Neutrality is still an elephant in the room in Kenya. What is the official policy of the government in this?
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In the past Kenyan IGF, Ali noted "With all competitors in theindustry laying fibre across town and country, the final cost will befooted by the end user, me and you". The shareholder wants to reaptoday, not after ten years, which is in itself immoral.Prices will definitely come down, but we need help from the regulator,and setting favourable laws. We have been waiting for the market tocorrect itself for too long.On 11/08/2013, 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
'The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less
than
you settled for.' - Maureen Dowd*
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