I agree with Kiania, to bring down internet prices, we must go beyond bringing down individuals. Trust me, replacing Ndemo (Govt), Michael J($afcom) or Kai (KDN) just to name a few of the leading stakeholders will NOT bring down prices. Instead we should be studying and looking at the conditions necessary to bring prices down. International fiber is definitely one of them. But as we have recently realized, it is NOT - in isolation - sufficient to cut down retail prices. walu. --- On Fri, 8/14/09, excuseme yespliz <xgetbusy@gmail.com> wrote:
From: excuseme yespliz <xgetbusy@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Fwd: the long fibre lie.... Ndemo should resign if internet prices do not drop as he promised!! To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 1:47 PM @ David
I remember the ps at onetime in the news when he was cornered,he said he is responsible for the cable if it does not deliver he is putting his work on the line? so much money has been spend on this fiber optic ghost or rather cash cow and its we techies who will use it.
when we have better speeds will have more jobs,more comfort,less hustle as we can work from home virtually.quick downloads,and virtually travel round the world in the comfort of own environment.more jobs from all over the world. without ever leaving our living room. jeezz!!
This is what I was waiting for!!! But it seems things will never change The old gray hairs who by default own every big company and forever claim to be the youth,will never set as free.
first, all they do with internet is to download mail,which has taken some ages to understand how
secondly,they care less about the consumer and even the quality of service their companies offer are terrible They have no idea why we need better speeds.
My begging question is when will we ever be free.
when will ever have the right people in the right places Who among us will break the glass ceiling and set as free so that we can all fly to the top of our dreams.
I think its time now we think otherwise, with this OLD BURGERS who kill our future in our very own eyes,we have no water,electricity,parking space, roads bcoz of them.
The future of our unborn children is deaming by the day skunks think about this
God help us
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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