they just need to price alittle bit close to zuku prices and for sure people will switch.this project should be completed in the shorted time possible.kplc already has the poles(for aerial fiber)and an already build fiber network.

I agree with the pricing bit.They need to have competitive pricing.
Quality of service is what matters nowadays.
In the office we had Simbanet biz 10 for 10Mbps which was advertised as dedicated but it has never been ,the link was asymmetrical and the upload was bad.But mid last month we decided to try Safaricom Fiber for business and signed up and the link was activated last Friday its a dedicated link 4Mbps symetrical burstable to 20 Mbps at the same monthly fee we used to pay to Simbanet.The 4 Mbps is worst case scenario.So far the link is superb .No installation cost for Safaricom fiber ready building.Upon contacting Simbanet sometimes last month informing them of our intention to cancel our service they offered an upgrade to 16Mbps from the initial 10 Mbps at the same monthly cost of Kes 20,000.

I heard the kplc md wondering why safcom digs cables underground when they can have safe and more reliable cables alongside their transmission poles

yes isp like zuku can rent space on kplc's poles to carry their fiber.

It looks like Safaricom will be leasing fiber bandwidth according to:

http://www.capitalfm.co....nnect-kenyans-internet/

"Safaricom, which has to date rolled out 3,200km of fiber reaching 7,000 homes, will lease additional broadband infrastructure built and owned by Kenya Power in order to roll out a “last mile” network, with the aim of connecting more homes to its broadband internet services."

“By leveraging on Kenya Power’s electricity infrastructure we will not only be able to accelerate the rate of connection to homes, we will tackle challenges experienced in roll-out of broadband services and reduce the inconvenience caused to Kenyans when we are forced to dig trenches to lay the underground fiber optic cable grid,” he said.

This is good news, Safaricom is independent from KPLC, it's not like they were merging to do fiber to home together as I assumed, meaning that KPLC can launch it's own.