I would like to add some 2 cents...literally. I know the whole undersea fibre thing has really been adopted by the technical community as our baby. However, this baby is not born into vacuum. There are still many aspects, especially business related ones, that will ultimately shape the price curve of the bandwidth commodity. The good people in business simply want an assurance that they will recoup their invested money. While this is clear in our minds as techies, it is just another commodity to the investor. Thus, while the country is preparing itself to change gears to start utilizing the cable, the businessman charges higher prices to the few people using his investment. This brings in more businessmen and more users (coz the high price is still lower than current prices). With more users and more businessmen (competition), the cost per unit bw sold comes down plus the selling price by any businessman is lowered to remain competitive. These twin forces bring down the price in the classic battle of horizontal vs vertical expansion...horizontal wins (less profit per user but many users). Vertical expansion will simply relocate to newly created opportunities in IT... but that's another story. -- Davis Waithaka <daviswaithaka@gmail.com> Systems Kenya Solutions