On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Murigi Muraya <mmskunkworks@gmail.com> wrote:

For now it is for ISP's to maintain their revenues! An ISP with 15 employees may have a payroll of say 1M per month. If they lower their costs (before tripling or quadrupling their client base) they will burn .... Unfortunately, they will still burn if they do not lower their prices fast enough to keep up with ISP's which have lower costs (and therefore can do with lower revenues).

@Murigi, there's a silver lining for smaller ISPs and I wish them well. I think they will be the ones who drop rates first and provide the best customer service to end users. During these tough times, internal restructuring maybe necessary for short term goals ( its been happening all over the world recently ). I wish I could contribute more but if they do their link budgets well, they will be smiling. Example is : While the bigger SPs increase bandwidth and keep rates the same, smaller ones can offer eg 64kbps @8KB/s dedicated @ Ksh 5,000/- per month. Remember this, at one time a 64kbps ( maybe even now ) used to run a cyber with 3-4 computers. The smaller circuits are that of unlimited use and am sure those who are looking for unlimited usage will remain loyal to slower speeds. So the 64kbps will allow clear 2 voip channels and surfing at the same time. Then for night use, they can use bandwidth from other providers and provide even better speeds. My thots....