Telkom Kenya offers Wireless, "Nice..."

[Tunasashimi]

http://www.telkom.co.ke/

I'd love to find out more about what's going on in this poor country...

irui said that the company has installed a state of art multi-terabit data centre/server farms in two location to enable kenyans enjoy uninterrupted email, domain, web and content hosting services He urged Kenyans to take advantage of the of the domestication of internet and the information technology sector in order to tap opportunities presented by the sector as well as venturing into opportunities that are economically viable.

Nice website for "state-of-the-art"...

I wonder what happened to the our Telkom buying a piece of them....

Looking at their offerings, it looks like they are already living up to the name, what do they need Telkom SA for?

Now about that multi terabit.... err.... eh... uhh... Lies?

Actually, here are their prices:

Phone line:
Installation R250
Depost R250
Montly Rental R50

Local Calls 50-70c/min

Now, here's the shocker: (They sell these in pre-paid cards)
90 hours of 32/128kbit ADSL R580
90 hours of 64/256 ADSL R1700
90 hours of 128/512 ADSL R3768

ADSL Modem R900
ADSL Installation R350

Do I have my info wrong, or do we NOT have the worst rates IN AFRICA?

(Mozambique is VEERY cheap by comparison - you can be on-line via CDMA at R6/hour on a 128kbit connection)

 

[headstrong]

And I thought SA was bad!

 

[broken1]

That telkom.co.ke website is VERY slow...or is it just me?

Shame.

 

[GreatBigMouth]

Almost R4000 for about 4 days of internet? And I thought the prices in SA were high! I guess it's understandable, considering that about 0.0001% of Kenya has ADSL lol...

 

[MrG]

That telkom.co.ke website is VERY slow...or is it just me?

Shame.

it is very slow indeed

 

[kilos]

Typical of Africa as Satellite links are very $$$
2Mb approx $13k/month and seen from the traceroute
from Colt.net
Congestion bigtime as they oversubscribed

http://traceroute.colt.net
traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 212.74.64.46 @ hme0
traceroute to www.telkom.co.ke (212.49.70.26), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 fe5-0-svc2.LON.router.COLT.NET (212.74.64.33) 0.648 ms 0.479 ms 0.496 ms
2 fe6-2-cr1.LON.router.COLT.NET (212.74.64.214) 0.652 ms 0.555 ms 0.376 ms
3 pos11-0-pr1.LON.router.COLT.NET (212.74.64.18) 0.634 ms 0.539 ms 0.991 ms
4 195.66.224.108 (195.66.224.108) 0.795 ms 1.074 ms 0.877 ms
5 t2c1-ge4-0.uk-lon1.eu.bt.net (166.49.135.101) 0.799 ms 0.916 ms 0.874 ms
6 t2c2-ge5-1.uk-lon2.eu.bt.net (166.49.208.241) 1.121 ms 1.372 ms 0.956 ms
7 t2c1-ge7-0.uk-lon2.eu.bt.net (166.49.176.43) 1.090 ms 1.167 ms 1.078 ms
8 t3a2-p4-0-0.uk-goo.eu.bt.net (166.49.163.22) 7.843 ms 7.840 ms 8.251 ms
9 * * 166-49-213-138.eu.bt.net (166.49.213.138) 532.868 ms
10 * * *
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