Alex am sure we can all lobby for better prices without forcing people to resign.
I dont want to see skunkers singing
"Ma Skunkers msilale,lale lale (* 2) ,bado mapambano".
like everybody does in this country...in the end instead of building everything is destoryed.
AlexLike I have said it everywhere and my friend is even updating his twitter with it all the time and started the facebook campaign, let Ndemo not take us for foolsMO
On 8/14/09, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:@David,
I am typing this very far from where I work - because my internet
connection, once again, automagically 'developed technical problems'
immediately after i posted that message.
Frankly, I am not sorry even for a single letter on that
email.Eenough is enough!
Alex
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:45 AM, David Kiania | Asentric Consulting
Ltd<kianiadee@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alex,
>
> I think this is going overboard, how could we judge Ndemo on one
> parameter based on a parameter that is this subjective? Bottom-line
> what the overall performance of the PS have to do with private ISPs,
> using a private company's submarine fiber? While are at it why don't
> we demand that Michael Joseph (MD of a Publicly listed company) be
> forced tor resign on the same basis?
>
> Please let's tone down our activism for more worthwhile causes.
>
>
> Kiania.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Gakuru Alex<alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Alex Gakuru <gakuru@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:11 AM
>> Subject: the long fibre lie... Ndemo should resign if internet prices
>> do not drop as he promised!!
>> To: ke-users <ke-internetusers@bdix.net>
>>
>>
>> What a long optics fibre lie the whole thing was...
>>
>> ---Business Daily---
>>
>> "we do not anticipate that [Internet] prices will drop as drastically
>> as initially indicated or within a short time-frame"
>>
>> <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/639386/-/u8ardrz/-/index.html>
>>
>> "..it was planning to implement an immediate 24 per cent discount on
>> its internet charges and promised higher discounts once connections to
>> international fibre optic links went live by the end of next month.."
>>
>> <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/638808/-/u8bcyoz/-/index.html>
>>
>> ---summary---
>> in short, consumers are going to continue being ripped-off while a
>> just too comfortable "hands-off" government sits back pretentiously
>> expecting "market-forces" to push prices down -
>>
>> The way I see it? we have several options a) to demand government
>> officers( Ndemo & Co.) who promised cheap internet to resign, b)
>> demand regulator to wake up and proactively set the prices c) continue
>> living in a denial and that,hopefully, one day we will have
>> "affordable" internet in Kenya.
>>
>> Where is Bitange Ndemo and and why did he lie to us and raised
>> Kenyans' hopes for cheap internet? we shall have serious problems to
>> believe anything he promises henceforth. He should resign if internet
>> prices do not go down as he promised.
>>
>> And who runs this country anyway? telecommunication companies or the
>> government and the regulator?
>>
>> Alex
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