Dear Dennis,

Please note that its true that KDN has been and is still offering free unguaranteed access to certain sites to enhance and promote local content. The sites that are currently free are :-
www.izzytalk.co.ke - allowing you to make free calls (even when not logged in)
www.butterfly.co.ke - KDN Portal, mail services and blog
www.nation.co.ke, www.capitalfm.co.ke, www.homeboyz.co.ke, www.ghettoradio.nl, www.kicc.co.ke & www.eastandard.net - Free access to Kenyan current affairs
www.google.co.ke
www.elearning.strathmore.edu, www.strathmore.edu  - Educational content
www.b2bkenya.com , www.westkenya.com,
eyes.butterfly.co.ke - KDN traffic camera network

Note that many more sites will be added  later in the year..
Kindly get in touch with me offlist in case you need further clarification..


Kind Regards,

John H Mwangi,
Customer Support Services,
Kenya Data Networks,
P.O Box 62499 - 00200,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel:  +254 20 556755, 711 060 000
EXT 107
Fax: +254 20 828685
URL: www.kdn.co.ke ; www.butterfly.co.ke
msn: gmwazjh@hotmail.com
skype: gmwazjjh@skype.com
yahoo: gmwaz@yahoo.com
 

... "Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else" ... 1 Thessalonians 5:15


Dennis Kioko wrote:
There is an article in our favourite Standard Newspaper on page 25
which quotes KDN CEO Kai Wulff saying that  "home and office users can
use the company's wi-fi connection (butterfly) for free." how true is
this?

On to other stories, who manages mirror.ac.ke ? They can be of much
help if they uploaded fedora 9 repositories and other up to date Linux
distributions, assuming that the mirror is hosted locally .