Collins, <br><br>In my view, none of the service providers are charging reasonably. I am not asking for a pricing model that leaves the service provider making no revenue. I just feel its a cartel to keep prices at where they are....<br>
<br>Correct me if I am wrong but the fibre uptake has been below expectation (at least my expectation - in which case you cant correct me...hehehe). <br><br>You see how I always saw this is....Fibre on its own means nothing to kenyans. Its what Kenyans can do when the fibre gets here. If the costs could go lower, a content company could for example be based in Meru Town, Machakos town, Uthiru....some place...and have fibre within its premises...thereby being able to distribute the content to Kenyans THUS making even more demand for the fibre/bandwidth..<br>
<br>Right now....only a few companies are able to afford the fibre/bandwidth costs...so consumer has very few options....therefore demand for bandwidth is very low so the few guys are actually just meeting the costs for the service provider.<br>
<br>Anyway....I guess I will keep scratching....the Internet Users Association of Kenya might not be a bad idea after all....<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:05 AM, [ Brainiac ] <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:arebacollins@gmail.com">arebacollins@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">there is reasonable charge for internet, then there is unreasonable. for a long time safaricom have stuck to the unreasonable end and managed to maintain quality of service.... untill they decided to try this mass market wimax thing .... im convinced there can only be affordable internet, not cheap internet. support is one big achilles heel to many a provider. <div>

<br></div><div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Odhiambo Washington <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com" target="_blank">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:57 PM, bernard kioko <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bernsoft@gmail.com" target="_blank">bernsoft@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">



Maybe we should talk to one who will agree to lower costs then we all move our business to them...<br><br>Perhaps we should ask the Government to control data prices :-)<br><br>Wash, there has to be a way.<br><br></blockquote>



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