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Loss-making Kenya Power plans to connect millions of its customers in rural homes with high-speed Internet as part of a fresh plan to capitalise on burgeoning mobile data usage in the country and grow new revenue streams.

This is a step up by the electricity distributor, which has been leasing fibre-optic cables attached to its transmission lines to Internet service providers.

Kenya Power said it would now directly target to connect rural customers with the Internet at a time it has expanded electricity penetration across the country by connecting millions of new homes in rural areas to its national grid.

This will see it take the battle for Internet customers to Telkom Kenya, Kenya Data Networks, Safaricom, Jamii Telecoms, AccessKenya, Essar Telecoms and Wananchi Group that have dominated the Internet market.
 
X-TRAIL said:
Loss-making Kenya Power plans to connect millions of its customers in rural homes with high-speed Internet as part of a fresh plan to capitalise on burgeoning mobile data usage in the country and grow new revenue streams.

This is a step up by the electricity distributor, which has been leasing fibre-optic cables attached to its transmission lines to Internet service providers.

Kenya Power said it would now directly target to connect rural customers with the Internet at a time it has expanded electricity penetration across the country by connecting millions of new homes in rural areas to its national grid.

This will see it take the battle for Internet customers to Telkom Kenya, Kenya Data Networks, Safaricom, Jamii Telecoms, AccessKenya, Essar Telecoms and Wananchi Group that have dominated the Internet market.
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Geniuses! Why didn't they think of that earlier.

Fail to deliver in your core business through corruption and incompetence and then diversify. Diversify into an industry with formidable competitors. That's how you sustain failure.
 
Procurements games kama kawaida. If you cannot manage power connections, you cannot manage data connections. Kama safaricom ingekuwa Kenyapower tungekuwa na shida mingi sana hii nchi. Wakati wa Telkom landline ulikuwa unajaribu kuwapigia simu ati line yako iko down alafu unagundua laini zao ziko out of order. What do you do when your phone company has no working phones?
 
bigDog said:
Geniuses! Why didn't they think of that earlier.

Fail to deliver in your core business through corruption and incompetence and then diversify. Diversify into an industry with formidable competitors. That's how you sustain failure.
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If I'm understanding @X-TRAIL vizuri, KPLC has been leasing their own fibre optic cables to ISPs to provide those home services; essentially what they are proposing here is to better utilise their own assets to complement their core business. They have the cables laid out across the country, meaning they would reach most people who currently have electricity connections. So hata wale tuko town but hatuko kwa radar ya Faiba/Safcom/Zuku can be quick beneficiaries, if they can price it right and offer reliable services. Vile naona ni kama vile watu wa 2NK core business ni kubeba abiria, but they started carrying letters and small parcels kwa hizo hizo gari.

I honestly don't think it is a bad idea, however, the concern would be how they source bandwidth (watu wa IT msinipige sana, sijui the tech terms but si mnaelewa what I'm trying to say?) and how they manage customer accounts. Watu wa procurement, IT na billing si watataka kula kama kawaida, na yao ni ya kumaliza.
 
R_Silver said:
however, the concern would be how they source bandwidth (watu wa IT msinipige sana, sijui the tech terms but si mnaelewa what I'm trying to say?) and how they manage customer accounts. Watu wa procurement, IT na billing si watataka kula kama kawaida, na yao ni ya kumaliza.
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If they have not perfected service delivery since 1922, what makes you think that they will perfect on this one?
 
R_Silver said:
If I'm understanding @X-TRAIL vizuri, KPLC has been leasing their own fibre optic cables to ISPs to provide those home services; essentially what they are proposing here is to better utilise their own assets to complement their core business. They have the cables laid out across the country, meaning they would reach most people who currently have electricity connections. So hata wale tuko town but hatuko kwa radar ya Faiba/Safcom/Zuku can be quick beneficiaries, if they can price it right and offer reliable services. Vile naona ni kama vile watu wa 2NK core business ni kubeba abiria, but they started carrying letters and small parcels kwa hizo hizo gari.

I honestly don't think it is a bad idea, however, the concern would be how they source bandwidth (watu wa IT msinipige sana, sijui the tech terms but si mnaelewa what I'm trying to say?) and how they manage customer accounts. Watu wa procurement, IT na billing si watataka kula kama kawaida, na yao ni ya kumaliza.
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What you fail to understand is that running a communications concern is much much more complicated than running a power distribution company. As the situation stands, firms in the data business are operating on very thin margins because competition is very stiff. Do you think KPLC stands any chances in a field where they have no advantage? Physical connections through fibre are no longer coveted like they used to. Broadband is almost as effective if not better.
 
Let's not just bash on KP.

Let's look at the bigger picture.

Almost all the major parastatals are collapsing by design.

Bring their value down e.g., Telkom

Open the market to competition. Safaricom, Airtel etc.

Buy the remnants for pennies on the dollar.

Rinse and repeat until all the main functions of government are essentially privatized.

State capture is happening all around us.

What is happening to KP is just the tip.

I postulate that by 2050, all traditional government services will be in the private sector or will have private sector competition.

Imagine all the main duties of government.

Water. Health. Education. Transport & Communication and Security.

All publicly traded on the NSE.

Leaving a shell that just collects taxes from the poor.

Taking us right back to colonial times and the essentially the duties of the home guard.
 
Young_Turk said:
What is happening to KP is just the tip.
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Wachana na conspiracy na tumeona Kenya Power ikiporwa life life - from purchase of faulty transformers to just this evening tumeona kwa news 10,000 "repairable" transformers zimerundikwa mahali (most likely to foment a crisis so that there is another opportunity for procurement). Watch Citizen news @9.
 
Mwalimu-G said:
Wachana na conspiracy na tumeona Kenya Power ikiporwa life life - from purchase of faulty transformers to just this evening tumeona kwa news 10,000 "repairable" transformers zimerundikwa mahali (most likely to foment a crisis so that there is another opportunity for procurement). Watch Citizen news @9.
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I agree

Itaporwa

Itauzwa shares to "private partners" to "increase competitive advantage"

And just like that, some groups somewhere have acquired a national energy company with billions in assets for a throw away price.

State capture.
 
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