*sigh* Anyway if the rest of E.A countries significantly reduce bandwidth (even mayb coz of gvmnt insisting), guess where I might b skunkin from... 8~( --- On Wed, 7/22/09, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote: From: Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> Subject: [Skunkworks] Optics Fibre ugly under-belly revealed? To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 7:05 PM Hold your speeds horses... a disturbing paragraph on today's Business Daily. '...warned end users not to expect a massive price cuts but anticipate faster internet connection and bigger bandwidth capacity at current costs or slightly lower...satellite connectivity that charges them Sh399, 360 ($5,000) per megabyte per month, but this is expected to be reduced to Sh15,974 ($ 200) for the same capacity' http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/-/539552/627720/-/item/2/-/goopo/-/index.... What's got into them? Reminded me of an old email (24 October, 2006) from 'prophetic' ( and very angry) consumer read, in part, "..there will be no such thing as cheaper technology in Kenya (everything new seems to cost more than the last piece of technology we had…) " Watchfully,,, _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general