Kenya’s cable plan to boost communications

These Kenyans sure don't beat about the bush hey, and when you see the potential savings you see why.

Yet we dawdle so:(
 
"Plunge to $200 for a Mbps"

Is that per month or per year, because $200 = R1400.

And R1400 a month + ISP profit = R1600 per month for a 1Mbps uncapped account. How is that cheap?
 
TiredOfWaiting said:
"Plunge to $200 for a Mbps"

Is that per month or per year, because $200 = R1400.

And R1400 a month + ISP profit = R1600 per month for a 1Mbps uncapped account. How is that cheap?
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For one thing the ISP takes that 1mbps and basically splits it amongst numerous users - ie contention ratios.


Secondly it is plunging from $7000
The cost of data transmission would come down, leading to lower cost of communication. The price of a Mbps is expected to plunge from a high of $7000 to $200.
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My point is just that they started off as incredibly overpriced and while it is now MUCH more affordable, it's still bloody expensive. And it's due to the friggin' contention ratios that we have high latency and crap like that.
 
TiredOfWaiting said:
My point is just that they started off as incredibly overpriced and while it is now MUCH more affordable, it's still bloody expensive. And it's due to the friggin' contention ratios that we have high latency and crap like that.
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ADSL everywhere has contention ratios - thats the nature of the beast.

AFAIK one of the reasons for our high latency - apart from geographic reasons - is the shaping put in place by telkom so they can contend international to an even higher degree. I suspect much of our latency is manufactured in an attempt to increase sales of expensive unshaped accounts.

Interesting that tyco (aka VSNL) is doing the survey. I wonder if they'll continue the survey along the entire coast down to SA.
 
To put things into perspective TiredOfWaiting, have a look at what we are subjected to in SA, courtesy of TELKOM and our useless DoC

Telkom’s domination of SAT-3 is under fire from the South African government, which is threatening to declare it a national asset to make prices more competitive.

Southwood told the BBC that SAT3 prices had been as high $25 000 per megabit per second per month, but had fallen to between $10 000 and $15 000. The actual cost to the operators is about $2 000, said Southwood.
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http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=267024&area=/insight/insight__economy__business/

Ignore the bit about TELKOM being under fire by government, thats just nonsense, the rest is relevant though.
 
That's extremely depressing. The "cost to the operators" is the cost to the ISPs, right? So we're paying 10 times what Kenya is expecting to pay. That stinks!
 
The part I don't get is that the government is all so high and mighty about the African renaissance and empowering Africa as a whole, yet we are still being subjected to plunder and pillage by clandestine consortiums like the SAT3 scum.

Why don't the government act, they are robbing us blind!
This has to be the most well calculated plunder in the history of AFRICA yet we do nothing.
It is despicable.
 
Sneeky said:
The part I don't get is that the government is all so high and mighty about the African renaissance and empowering Africa as a whole, yet we are still being subjected to plunder and pillage by clandestine consortiums like the SAT3 scum.

Why don't the government act, they are robbing us blind!
This has to be the most well calculated plunder in the history of AFRICA yet we do nothing.
It is despicable.
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Why doesnt the government act? You answered the question yourself . . .
they are robbing us blind!
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"They" is the government too.
 
PiesangTee said:
*YAWN*
Kenya is another South Africa...
Just do a google on Myadsl articles alone:
http://www.google.co.za/search?q=ke...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Hopefully something comes of this - they have pathetic international bandwidth on the East Coast of Africa.

What ever happened to EASSy?
http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=4258
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Why the yawn dude?
Kenya has taken the initiative in ridding themselves of exorbitant bandwidth costs in Africa.
Kenya snubbed Eassy cause of 'certain' governments interference in pricing structures, amongst other issues no doubt.

Although they have not pulled out of Eassy (as far as I can recall) they decided that the delays were unacceptable and they would just be better off securing their own system in the interests of driving down access and broadband costs fast, as waiting for the Eassy players (South Africa being at the center of the disputes) to agree was just wasting precious time they did not have.
 
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The yawn is because I regularly try to keep up with this kind of news and quite frankly it's like the promises of an SNO in SA. I assume your optimism is the same for an open telecoms market in SA?
I assume you haven't tried to use the internet much in Kenya - they have been waiting a long long time for any decent and affordable international bandwidth.
 
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Hehe, I 'assume' that by them getting their own independent cable free of blood draining consortia that they could soon be leaps and bounds ahead of the rest.
At the very least they have a big jumpstart. Something SA should've done when it became quite apparent that the SAT-3 consortium and TELKOM where not interested in reducing connectivity costs.
 
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