---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alex Gakuru <gakuru@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:11 AM
Subject: the long fibre lie... Ndemo should resign if internet prices
do not drop as he promised!!
To: ke-users <ke-internetusers@bdix.net>
What a long optics fibre lie the whole thing was...
---Business Daily---
"we do not anticipate that [Internet] prices will drop as drastically
as initially indicated or within a short time-frame"
<http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/639386/-/u8ardrz/-/index.html>
"..it was planning to implement an immediate 24 per cent discount on
its internet charges and promised higher discounts once connections to
international fibre optic links went live by the end of next month.."
<http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/638808/-/u8bcyoz/-/index.html>
---summary---
in short, consumers are going to continue being ripped-off while a
just too comfortable "hands-off" government sits back pretentiously
expecting "market-forces" to push prices down -
The way I see it? we have several options a) to demand government
officers( Ndemo & Co.) who promised cheap internet to resign, b)
demand regulator to wake up and proactively set the prices c) continue
living in a denial and that,hopefully, one day we will have
"affordable" internet in Kenya.
Where is Bitange Ndemo and and why did he lie to us and raised
Kenyans' hopes for cheap internet? we shall have serious problems to
believe anything he promises henceforth. He should resign if internet
prices do not go down as he promised.
And who runs this country anyway? telecommunication companies or the
government and the regulator?
Alex
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