RE: [LUG] Nationmedia.com News: Kenya enters global data highway

[Gimei Nagimesi]

Article was either poorly researched. Maybe the source was “misquoted” or author is as non-tech as they get. Have a happy new year.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronny Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:12 AM To: Linux Users Group Uganda Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LUG] Nationmedia.com News: Kenya enters global data highway   :-D ******************************************************************* PGP Fingerprint: 6695 794A B84E D922 88FB 73CC 6CBD 8036 B3CD 7304 We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are *******************************************************************       McTim wrote:   On 12/29/05, Nation Media <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] has sent you this article from Nationmedia.com with this message: hope we can have this locally in uganda soon! hmmm not really, as the author is deeply confused!  comments inline in color, apologies to those of yoou using Pine, etc ;-): A new optic fibre to the Indian Ocean changes the face of telecommunication misleading headline, read on for why Kenya makes a dramatic entry into the information superhighway early in the new year with the completion of an optic fibre project from the Indian Ocean town of Mombasa to Nairobi. fiber from NBO to Mombasa gets you nothing if there is no submarine cable landing in Mombasa!  At this point here is not. The commissioning of the project by March, so the submarine cable up and down the East Coast (EASSy project, google for it) will be commissioned by March? In practical terms, the fibre whose construction works has already reached Athi River-all the way from Mombasa-means that a student who has been spending five hours at a cyber cafe communicating with a foreign university will now spend less that an hour for the same output. Not until this fiber from NBO to coast is actually connected to existing infrastructure, currently many hundred of miles away to the North (thousands of miles to the South). This will translate into less pay for the student, but the bigger picture will mean that multinational companies working in Kenya will finally stop moaning of poor and expensive telecommunication infrastructure. Yes, this is part of what the EASSy cable will do, but not for 3 years, and several hundreds of millions of USD <snip> Over the years for example, even though the cost of surfing the web has continued to come down, internet speeds have not shown a concomitant upward swing. Going fibre has been the only option that can kill two birds with a single stone. Hmm not true, read the nation today, (Friday).  There should be a stroy about an alternative. But notoriously slow internet speeds still remain the biggest stumbling block. Currently surfing the internet in an average Nairobi cyber caf for five hours costs 300 shillings, a figure that is still too high for the average income earners, the category where most would-be students belong. Here, the problem has not really been the cost per given time. Rather, it is the speed. true Are you a journalist? If you want to write a story about the submarine cable project, talk to the UCC gents, MTN, UTL, i-network folk, Badru from O2N, me, etc. Lots of Ugandans know all about it. -- Cheers, McTim $ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim    _______________________________________________LUG mailing listLUG@linux.or.ughttp://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug%LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way.---------------------------------------

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