"3: is it realistic to envision someday setting my webserver connected to an e61i or huaweii modem and sell realistic hosting from the comfort of my home in kajiado?"

I don't think this will happen soon, even with multiple fibers coming to the country, especially if traffic to the hosted sites will be high.

As a compromise, maybe by then, one of the local ISPs will have got their act together and setup a countrywide Tier 2 link then maybe have a direct connection, via any of the fibers, to a Tier 1 backbone. Maybe then, one of the root name servers will be in Africa. If that be the case, you might be able to setup a local server farm and use that to offer hosting services, which will be competitive with the likes of 1and1.

However, using 3G (i.e the Nokia E61i or Huaweii modem) as the main link from your server to the internet might be a technically inferior solution to the local hosting problem.

My 2 cents :-)

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Areba Collins <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
I find this forum appropriate to engage in this discussion. Once
again, if this has been done before, forgive me, im trying to get
opinions and views, and possible scenarios. Please consider the
following:

1: Fiber lands, Mobile providers offer unlimited band on 3G at monthly
flat rates: say for instance 7.2M at Ksh2000 on a contention ratio of
about 100 users.  What possible scenarios exist for companies like
access , wananichi and other providers.

2: Would companies like safari and zain (or Cain depending on who is
next online) have capacity to roll out (and sustain 3G network)
countrywide? -> this being from a business and not technology
perspective. -> are mobile companies a real enough threat to kill
traditional ISPs?

3: is it realistic to envision someday setting my webserver connected
to an e61i or huaweii modem and sell realistic hosting from the
comfort of my home in kajiado?

Thanks in Advance.
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then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea
and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will
have two ideas.

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