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Kenya: Residential broadband service boosts company sales[Carole Kimutai] AccessKenya Group, Kenya's first publicly-listed ICT company has announced that it has achieved its year-end customer target numbers nearly two months ahead of schedule. It has 3000 customers now signed up to its residential broadband service, Access@Home, and over 3100 customers contracted for its corporate broadband service, Broadband Max. 16 Nov 2009 10:02 KDN subscribers enjoy more bandwidth[Carole Kimutai] Kenya Data Networks have quadrupled its bandwidth offering for all its existing and new clients. This offer went into effect on Wednesday, 21 October 2009. Clients previously receiving 1Mbps now enjoy 4Mbps and only pay for 1Mbps and the other 3Mbps are offered free of charge. 26 Oct 2009 07:41 Refugees take on digital jobsRefugees living at the world's largest makeshift camp in Kenya are being offered the opportunity to earn up to two US dollars an hour by participating in a digital pilot project. 16 Oct 2009 09:37 Mobile Internet revolution targets Africa's rural areas[Issa Sikiti da Silva] After sweeping the urban population off its feet, the mobile Internet revolution is now targeting the rural areas of Africa, where more than 70% of the continent's 890 million people live in extreme poverty and in the fringes of society, thanks to governments' ‘discriminatory' policies prioritising urban areas. 15 Oct 2009 07:29 Mobile Internet revolution targets Africa's rural areas[Issa Sikiti da Silva] After sweeping the urban population off its feet, the mobile Internet revolution is now targeting the rural areas of Africa, where more than 70% of the continent's 890 million people live in extreme poverty and in the fringes of society, thanks to governments' ‘discriminatory' policies prioritising urban areas. 15 Oct 2009 07:29 Alvarion, Safaricom to deploy nationwide WiMAX network in KenyaAlvarion has announced its selection by Kenyan mobile services provider Safaricom for a three-year turnkey WiMAX project to deploy high-speed broadband services throughout Kenya. Using Alvarion's BreezeMAX solution at 3.5 GHz frequency band, the WiMAX network will enable wireless broadband for residential and corporate users, rural areas, municipalities, banks, schools and universities. 8 Oct 2009 07:55 Altech increases stake in KDNAllied Technologies (Altech) earlier this week announced that it would increase its economic stake in Kenya Data Networks (KDN) from 51% to 60.8% by investing a further USD39.5 million into the company. The capital injection will be used to roll out the KDN fibre-optic network. 25 Sep 2009 09:50 Kenya: e-Commerce is here, finally
Kenya: Consumers furious over high internet prices[Carole Kimutai] SEACOM and the East African Marine Systems (TEAMS) undersea fibre optic cables went live about a month ago but internet consumers in Kenya are yet to enjoy price cuts. The arrival of the much hyped fibre optic cable raised expectations amongst Kenyan consumers who were looking forward to faster speeds, more bandwidth and cheaper connectivity costs. 9 Sep 2009 10:35 Kenya launches digital villages projectNAIROBI: Kenya has launched the Digital Villages Project (DVP) aimed at encouraging new micro-enterprises by providing access to information, education and new markets. Kenya's permanent secretary for the Ministry of Information, Communications Technology (ICT), Bitange Ndemo, officiated at the first project, known as Pasha, in Kangundo. 14 Aug 2009 09:40 Solar-powered technology classrooms in KenyaIntel Corporation is supporting an initiative in Kenya that aims to provide rural schools with training for students on computers as a learning tool and a way to gain skills. The project by the US-affiliated NGO - Kageno - worth approximately Ksh3 million plans to be launched countrywide through a mobile solar computer classroom targeting initially five schools in Rusinga Island. 6 Aug 2009 12:00 Nairobi hosts digital content summit
Ghossein appointed new Telkom Kenya CEONAIROBI: Telkom Kenya, late last week unveiled Mickael Ghossein as its new CEO. The announcement was made by the company's board of directors following a meeting earlier in the week. 30 Jun 2009 14:37 Latest jobs | Ad showcase |
Ignite Consulting, in conjunction with AITEC East Africa, is hosting a summit focusing on local content innovation, in order to engage participants in dialogue and action planning. The Developing Local Internet Content Summit 2009 will take place at the Windsor Golf Hotel, Nairobi from 7 - 8 August 2009. 
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