Monday, February 23, 2009

Fibre Optic Cable lands in 2 weeks time

You ready?

5 comments:

coldtusker said...

How after the landing do I get speedy internet?

I wonder if Telkom/Orange will benefit coz at the moment SafCon has a lock on 'mobile internet'.

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MainaT said...

I'd say given KDN has already laid the fo cable within Kenya, by June we should be seeing some fast speeds. Every firm that is aiming to get in as a provider will benefit. Its just like with mobiles how quickly they can get coverage.

Unknown said...

@CT
Operational in 4 months (June).

The cable is SEACOM - Kenyan ownership is 35%. Its not clear which Kenyan company has a stake.

Others:

TEAMS - Safcom & Telkom have 20% each; Econet and Zain have 10% each.

EASSY - the most DIFFICULT project with politics and intrigue. It started in 2003 (all the others are less than 3 years old) - and will complete in 2010 - hopefully. There have been hints by SA (the major shareholder and the troublemaker) that they might pull out. Gok owns a stake (circa 20%?) and is still comitted to the project.

If TEAMS does land in 2010, it will help reduce costs of bandwidth even further.

Telcomms overall:
Cost of international calls is set to go down dramatically.

I think Zain was initially content with being Number 2. Now they would rather kill the baby than hand it to its true mother.

Other:
- Digital TV via cable (bad timing fo GTV?)
- BPO
- Software houses
- Ecommerce

etc. etc.

I think Billions will be made. Information age is not like industrial age - we dont need foreign investors to succeed!

All those billions... We better be the ones who make them.

coldtusker said...

"I think Zain was initially content with being Number 2. Now they would rather kill the baby than hand it to its true mother."

Please explain.