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jio
#1 Posted : Monday, December 07, 2009 4:20:12 AM
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With two submarine cable already operational at the East coast of Africa and all major ISPs and mobile operators hooked up what is your experience on download speeds, small and medium sized video streaming and international calls?
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kyt
#2 Posted : Monday, December 07, 2009 4:31:56 AM
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Safaricom streams really fast, the cost is muhadhara, a guy who works 4 an IT company tells me he has speeds to download a movie in 25 mins, and he has a proof, by the wkend he has 10 movies! Now thats speed. Thats what am talking about.
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anasazi
#3 Posted : Monday, December 07, 2009 6:00:09 AM
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In my experience, the arrival of the cable has not really revolutionalised the browsing experience as I thought. I thought that once they landed, I would never wait for a youtube video etc.... Hmm Anyway, maybe we should give them more time. But Safcom is EXPENSIVE! And I hate that model of charging for the data both uploaded and downloaded....
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bird_man
#4 Posted : Monday, December 07, 2009 6:37:56 AM
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Anasazi,

At the company I used to work for a while back,KDN put us on fiber in August(a 1Mbps link).I have never seen anything like that.You could stream 3 different videos on YouTube without buffering at all!A 60Mb file would download in 60seconds....

That was true broadband.However, not so many smaller companies have been moved to this kind of service and definately individual consumers will have to wait for a while. The ISPs have the bandwidth,its just that they are holding on to it and maybe trying to create profitable business from it.
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KulaRaha
#5 Posted : Monday, December 07, 2009 6:43:01 AM
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bird_man, I have heard the same thing about kdn lines. while they may not be super reliable, the speeds they give I hear are mind blowing!!!!

If only one, just one ISP would have the guts to be the first mover, we would all have decent relaible affordable internet.
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AmHere
#6 Posted : Monday, December 07, 2009 7:02:35 AM
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I am looking at changing my useless service provider soon. For access at home (no pun intended???) seems like Tangerine and Zuku provide speed at reasonable costs. Anyone here that can share their personal experience with Zuku? Safcom is fast but the cost is just as fast.
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bird_man
#7 Posted : Monday, December 07, 2009 7:14:53 AM
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@Kularaha,

The KDN speeds are crazy....but for a 1Mbps link say you lived in CBD, you would need to fork out 48k/month.We used to pay around 200k/month for the same link before August!

It only makes sense to have it if you are a company.The problem is that almost all other ISPs are buying the bandwidth from KDN.Other ISPs I think are still trying to come up with profitable models.
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KulaRaha
#8 Posted : Monday, December 07, 2009 7:49:30 AM
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The prob I have seen with ISPs is that they have sooo many excuses yet we all know they are making supernormal profits.

Explain to me, how can one isp sell a 256k line for 1500/=, another at 4500/= and yet another at 6000/=?? The product is almost homogenous so what is different?

Its like saying one bank sells dollars at 75/=, another at 225/= and yet another at 450/=, with the guy selling at 450/= claimining to have the best service!
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bird_man
#9 Posted : Monday, December 07, 2009 8:12:27 AM
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KulaRaha....haha!Thats a funny one.

I have however noticed that though the product could be the same,customer care and fault diagnosis are very different.KDN's is very lousy.Telkom's is non-existent, AccessKenya's is quite good.So you also have to think about that when considering the prices.
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KulaRaha
#10 Posted : Monday, December 07, 2009 9:00:34 AM
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Birdman, I agree, the better the service the higher the price. But my question is, what is the premium you would allocate better service?

20%? 50%? 300%? 4000%?

Surely, anyone above 15% premium for service is cheating.
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