Its Orange all the way. I am touching sp33ds of 300 KB/s when downloading torrents. ORANGE , hoyahh ! Hoyahh !!!

@ jagger thats how safaricom has always been at my place, at least the few times i used it, i remember getting speeds of upto 4Mbps on the download. Safaricom rules both in speeds and prices!!

@ jarr. Thanx 4 that .but are those out of bundles speeds ?

As for yours truly, I use both Orange and Safaricom (Safcom for speed, and Orange for cost effectiveness). I use roughly 2GB on Orange every 4 weeks (cost 2,200) and (previously) an additional 1 GB Safcom every 8 weeks (cost 2,499). Note – Safcom was only a backup. This brought my cost to roughly Kshs 3,500 per month.

I had debated about switching to the unlimited Orange offer but for the sake of redundancy I opted not to. I have now purchased the Unlimited Safcom 32Kbps offer while still keeping my Orange. I want to see how it goes and if it works well, I will probably take up the 64Kbps offer and only use Orange if Safcom is not operational.

Currently, I do not use the Internet to the extent that I would wish to and have been cutting out any frivolous use – but I still get to use about 100MB most weekdays. I would like to cap my cost at Kshs 2,000 a month without giving up the freedom of using the net as and when I want to.

What are the experience/ expectations of others?

qw, you have a good point there. Nonetheless, I have preferred bundles for the simple reason that whenever there's an outage, I do not pay. Take the case of Orange during the 1st half of September! If any operator can guarantee uptime and a certain minimum speed, then I would be happy with "contract" service. I am trying out the Safcom bundle since it is cheap enough for me to bail out without feeling the pinch if it turns out to be a dud.