High Cost of Internet Connectivity blamed on poor policy really?
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Article quite accurate, everyone lays their own infrastructure at a very high cost to be passed on to very few subscribers. In nigeria, the NCC forces ISPS to lease from the incumbent
I'm afraid you guys might be holding the wrong end of the stick. All those who laid their own infrastructure did so at their own behest and more out of ego trips and misguided efforts to create "shareholder value". Kenya's policy framework is probably one of the best in Africa (if not the best) and gives any player in the market free hand to set up their business model and execute it. There are some actors who are quietly making very good profits and offering incredible prices simply because they decided to lease infrastructure rather than make huge capital outlays on infrastructure build. We should blame the operators' lack of strategic, tactical and downright practical planning for the continuing "high" prices.... Mblayo On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
Article quite accurate, everyone lays their own infrastructure at a very high cost to be passed on to very few subscribers. In nigeria, the NCC forces ISPS to lease from the incumbent _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
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Has the government laid enough cables for the providers to lease? Is it lit? On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com>wrote:
I'm afraid you guys might be holding the wrong end of the stick. All those who laid their own infrastructure did so at their own behest and more out of ego trips and misguided efforts to create "shareholder value".
Kenya's policy framework is probably one of the best in Africa (if not the best) and gives any player in the market free hand to set up their business model and execute it. There are some actors who are quietly making very good profits and offering incredible prices simply because they decided to lease infrastructure rather than make huge capital outlays on infrastructure build.
We should blame the operators' lack of strategic, tactical and downright practical planning for the continuing "high" prices....
Mblayo
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
Article quite accurate, everyone lays their own infrastructure at a very high cost to be passed on to very few subscribers. In nigeria, the NCC forces ISPS to lease from the incumbent _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
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Well; with regards to the guys who have "laid" their own infrastructure; wudnt it be better that they do the following: - one company lays eg in Nairobi East; another in Nairobi West; another in Nairobi South; and yet another in Nairobi North - each company will have covered 1/4 of the city (instead of repeating infrastrure in same place several times) - at which point the companies can do either of two things: (1) lease fiber in the other three Nairobi areas and charge lease to others for their area (2) OR better still, dont charge each other for the four Nairobi areas; but charge lease for Companies outside the partnership - Then all they have to do is aggressive fight for end user clients; and the numbers are growing; instead of taking huge Capital Infrastructure loans and paying for 20 years My 15 cents. w/r SN
IMO they should either form an infrastructure company and sell their infrastructure to that or sell that to Bharti infratel
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