@Djinn,what's with the anti-safcon stance. Did they steal your goat?

Be the change you want to see in the world...

It will take another 4 weeks (1 Sep) to get better speeds for all. KDN,safcon,Access are all testing the cable. Connecting. And all that jazz. Some areas are getting better speeds since they are home to safcon execs,big clients,govt officials... the rest of us will have to wait. _____ If you are waiting for lower charges... utangoja... till 2010.

Greedy when others are fearful,Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase WB

@Djinn and @wa P

I agree with you guys Safaricom nees to get much more serious and emulate other Kenyan companies:

1. I remember with nostalgia when KP&T use to provide good mobile service to 25,000 guys in few areas of Nairobi only and installed phone booths,one per location,to allow us to talk to our relatives
2. Look at how friendly Nairobi Water answer customer service when you inquire why there's been no water for the whole weekend
3. Or how quickly KPLC restores connection every time there's a unexpected blackout
4. And how well KQ keep their word [on-time departures] these days,72% of the time last month

Safaricom should aspire to be:
5. as inclusive as Equity with her large customer base of 3.5 million customers
6. more like EABL our largest corporate by capitalisation that pays tribute to our recreation
7. contribute as much as Nakumatt and our other large taxpayers for development
8. at a minimum,as innovative as the banking industry in banking our poor

9. Or as reliable as UUNET,AccessKenya,Africa Online,Wananchi et all in their 10 year quest to connect us to the wired world
10. Or as empowering and transparent as KQ when shares were floated in 1996 at 11.25/= and brought a staggering 110,000 people to NSE.

IF ONLY WE GAVE ALL COMPANIES IN KENYA AS HAD A RAP,WE WOULD ACHIEVE VISION 2030 MUCH FASTER.

Good news? Orange is launching 3G tomorrow. Anyone with more news?

@Chris - the Orange person says 'we are using the predecessor of 3G which is EDGE and is also much faster' - NOPE! EDGE came BEFORE 3G and is 2.5G (like CDMA) but is not faster than 3G (HSDPA) Your Orange guy is wrong....or being patronising.

The problem with equality is that we desire that it be with those that have more than us rather that those that have less

i am on safaricom and my speeds have trippled so i can comfortably say i am doing ok download is 1.34mb upload 0.45mb so am not doing bad am i?

hasta la vista

so 3g+ is faster than 3g?....click on this link

http://www.business.oran...e&cid=1044133173948

Has anyone used 3G+ being touted by Orange Kenya?

Greedy when others are fearful,Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase WB

@Riddler DITTO

Did exactly exactly the same thing,on exactly the same day,and got exactly the same result. Didn't have the conversation with the guys though - no need for too much talk.

Adverts can be very misleading '3G+ on CDMA network with coverage in all major towns'. Seeing is believing - nothing short of that.

From my legacy ADSL Livebox during busy hour,I have the results below,so if your average is 600ms and you're think you are on 3G,gimme a break! They'll be no (real) 3G in Kenya maybe till October.

Pinging yahoo.com [209.191.93.53] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.191.93.53: bytes=32 time=1151ms TTL=48
Reply from 209.191.93.53: bytes=32 time=921ms TTL=48
Reply from 209.191.93.53: bytes=32 time=843ms TTL=48
Reply from 209.191.93.53: bytes=32 time=764ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 209.191.93.53:
Packets: Sent = 4,Received = 4,Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 764ms,Maximum = 1151ms,Average = 919ms



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