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Fibre!!!
9Mar2009 Filed under: Uncategorized Author: alkagsKenya is finally connected via Fibre Optic Cable. Seacom Engineers are currently working to connect the undersea cable to the national grid.
For those of us who work in ICT and who have been saying, it is coming, it is coming, this is a big joy. The next few weeks will see local companies being able to roll out new products with more bandwidth at lesser rates – I know that mos marketing managers are working overtime right now to put things together for this.
Sigh. What Absolute Joy.
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About Al Kags
Al Kags is a poet and writer based in Nairobi Kenya. He is the Author of the Book - Living Memories (http://living.alkags.com), a collection of true stories narrated to him by ordinary people who lived in the extraordinary times of the 1950s.
As a poet, Al Kags has published the Quarterly Colour Series of Poetry, a series of ebooks since 2009, which have been read by over 1,000,000 people around the world and which are contributed to by people from all over the world.
For his day job, Al Kags is an acclaimed Marketer and project Manager.
Leo Faya
March 13th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Sometimes I worry that in Kenyans minds, Bandwidth = Content. I dont get how the whole country has been waiting for Bandwidth. Kama mama analeta mboga jioni na ugali. The rest of the world transacted without broadband. I keen saying this over and over again, in the US we had Compuserve, Prodigy, Netzero,AOL which were all dial up services. Business was being conducted as usual.
In Kenya business isnt as usual until Broadband comes… Kagz I can envision a whole bunch of bandwidth available and inadequate utilization.I could be wrong but I see it coming? I am not sure we expect with this BANDWIDTH – voice? faster data connections? ama am just hating?
alkags
March 16th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Leo,
you are indeed right. People have been operating like content will simply just appear. But I know of quite a number of projects coming up for content with a lot of people. I think we just need to get into the mix as well…
Zee
March 17th, 2009 at 7:05 am
The issue that will drive content is not only bandwidth availability. Kenya needs a robust e-commerce regulatory framework to enable it exploit the full benefits of the increased bandwidth through development of kenyan owned content.