aki, I declare your 'initiation ceremony' successful. Welcome to bruising our local 'private sector' telecommunications competition battleground.(But honestly dunno whether to congratulate or send you my sympathies:) For the record: I support if possible 100 fibre cables connecting Kenya irrespective of who owns or operates them. I cannot wait for O3B's 12- GB/s satellite connectivity due next year as well. -Coverage all of Africa and other developing nations -Promises to offer up to 12 Giga Bytes per second, -To provide 'backhaul' to GSM, ISP others licenced Recall your message of Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:46 PM and watch Interview with O3b Networks Founder and CEO Greg Wyler at <http://www.o3bnetworks.com/video_greg.flv (40 MB) A bit of history... (3 months ago or thereabouts) Did you know that operators resolved to only token-marginally reduce internet consumers prices after cable(s) connections arguing that "because Kenyans are used to very high prices"? Only multiple cables will force service providers competition leading to low prices. You can give it a rest but I cannot. It's my job to smell anti-consumer rats and whatever furs they leave along their trails. Frankly it's a communication Rights war and rosy futuristic pictures of super fast connectivity costing a limb or two won't fly no more. Cheers, Alex On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:15 AM, aki<aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Alex, my silly long lasting impressions of the event : And to prove this, I'll be watching TKL and others. Until 24th July, I was not aware of the background activities. I'm now self assured by the above impressions that TKL as national operator to public networks and others will NOT be bringing undersea connectivity to kenyans until late september. There were 2 camps in telco industry in kenya ( new to me ). " Supposedly Expensive Private entity " and " Supposedly Cheaper Public entity". Lets hope for the best and may all our assumptions and impressions be proved wrong and the winner will be end user kenyans. I'll give this topic a rest..... :-)
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/25/09, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Actually what I found completely surprising about Seacom Launch , besides that 99% of telco industry had other plans up their sleeve, was a complete lack of celebration from industry professionals.
Or perhaps it emerged it was a KDN terrestrial fibre test/launch?
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