While watching the television at news time youll be treated to Kenyans climbing masts or trees to make a telephone call. Dear Governor, Senator, MP and MCA are you aware of this and without communication how are you driving development policies in your regions. Safaricom Foundation, Airtel Foundation and Orange Telkom is this happening under your watch. It is in 2000 I met Kencell MD (Vandebrooke) with a team of young ladies selling wireless & data connectivity at the tea factories in Kericho I wasnt amused. Those were initial mobile telephony days when after Nairobi the next BTS was Naivasha, Nakuru, Kericho to Kisumu or Eldoret the fastest was Kencell (Alcatel) main frame while Safaricoms siemens import from India at the time was problematic. Kenya will not develop at this pace and it is against human liberty to connect certain regions with communication and blackout out some. I might be persuaded by Frank Jeffkins (British PR Marketing) Guru that it makes economic sense to be in the Markets that operate cash economy. Mobile telephony operates differently in that those in the urban setting usually dole out credit to their relatives and associates in the rural areas. What the phone companies argue is that it is expensive to roll out BTS stations in regions without infrastructure. In arguing this way they miss out big on multiplier effect of increased revenue from urban to Rural via mobile transfers. I hope Governors are listening and or reading especially Turkana, Kapenguria,Marsabit, Moyale, Mandera etc.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:06:59 +0000
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