All these companies Hinge on the fact that the average Kenyan wanting to download a document or read his email doesn't know what the guy in the UK sending him the Email is paying for his Internet connection. . .. look at the mobile revolution case. . . .3G enabled handsets used to sell for upwards of 70,000/- back in 2004 but know fetch 12k. . .the less you know the more likely you will glibly swallow what the seemingly sharp salesman says. . . .. . On 8/31/09, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
Internet costs has for a very long time been our biggest problem. Use http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/data_transfer_rate to divide 1 500 MB (Dec 2008) by 3,500,000 internet users to get an average of 0.0004285 MB/s per user at what prices? And remember unlimited fixed-charge tariffs have been silently scrapped now.... I compare internet sale in Kenya to drugs business - give users just some good amount until they get hooked then charge them a fortune thereafter... and they then compete at becoming the most profitable companies around..
Tomorrow may as well be a defining moment for Kenya's future ecomony, social and political dimensions. We just cannot sit and let telecommunication companies steal our future from us and future generations right in front of our very eyes. This is a promise!!!
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Murigi Muraya<mmskunkworks@gmail.com> wrote:
Please note comments in the provided link. Ma maa maaapaambano maaapambano maaapambano ....
100Mbps Internet Connection For 11 USD Per Month - Boing Boing
Speed tests pretty reliably pull 5.8Mbps and 512K respectively. .... 20-25 Megs down/ 1.5-2 Megs upload. 70 USD per month, Comcast on the central coast of ... boingboing.net/2009/02/17/japan-internet-connection.html
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:41 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
@Murigi, in the case of internet, economy drive to empower just middle class and higher means that the business models are just meant to work in urban areas which are the main business targets for the internet sector. This takes us back to the core problem. Financial sector and it is this sector alone that will cripple the country and development. Such economies tend to have bigger problems and smaller solutions. Clear cut case of a runaway greed manifesting into slowed growth and poorer citizens. It will not stop, same as the rush to Nairobi to get jobs while living in tin shacks and bleak futures. Even middle class is being drained by dependents of families who they need to support financially. My thots.. over and out.
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