Yesterday at the investor conference, Bob said sth to this effect... "Watch out in the coming few weeks for some exciting data offers!!!" Lets hope these offers would be worth the scrapping off the daily unlimited internet bundle.

Works the same way the late safaricom unlimited used to work, its capped to some maximum limit, I have been able to do around 300kB/s - I don't know the theoretical maximum, but I guess it should be around 512kB/s.

It's cheaper than what safaricom had
150 per day, 750 per week and 2,999 per month

I was used to Safaricom unlimited @2999, but have now switched to the 4GB bundle at 2499. I want to say that there is a positive side since am now getting higher speeds at 2mbps compared to 0.5mbps when I was on unlimited. I can now stream youtube videos (without them 'buffering') unlike when I was on unlimited.

hahahahaha. Streaming videos using internet bundles ? I ask are you nuts ? Is it even practical

fixed data bundles are ideal for use on the phone, I don't know what data needs on a phone would push one to use 4gb in a month.
on the other hand, if you are using a modem then the data bundles ni hasara - most sites have streaming content that will maliza your data asap, esp with the high speeds that come with the bundles.
try making a skype call on the bundles and you will regret.

I use a modem.

Before the official speeds for the unlimited internet was dropped to 128 Kbps, it used to be 512 Kbps.

While the speed was at 512, the maximum amount that could be downloaded in 24 hrs was 5.4 Gb.

If the speed was at a constant 512 Kbps, you simply could not download more than 5.4 Gb in 24 hrs because you were limited by the speed.

Because it was unlimited internet, the speed limit at which you download data only defined the rate at which you could download the data, Should you have wanted to download more than 5.4 Gb, you would simply have proceeded downloading through the second day and so on, because it was unlimited data, at 512 Kbps.

Unlimited internet is when there are no limits on the amount of data that you can download at X speed. It is not unlimited internet, if there is a limit on the amount of data that you can download at X speed.

Since there were no caps or limits on the amount that people could download, then, it was truly unlimited internet.

It has been said that individuals were downloading 35 Gb per day, so the question was how was it possible for people do download 35 Gb per day, on the unlimited bundle? While the official speed on the unlimited bundle was at 512 Kbps?

The calculations showed why 35 Gb per day was not possible on a 512 Kbps connection, and what it would take to be able to download 35 Gb per day.

- 5.4 Gb per day was possible at the speed of 512 Kbps
- 35 Gb per day was only possible if the speed was increased to 3319 Kbps, which is equivalent to 3.2 Mega bits per second.

So how was it possible to download 35 Gb per day while the official speed was 512 Kbps? The article revealed it.

“It is possible to bypass the limitations. People took advantage of the network to download massive amounts of data,”

Individuals "bypassed the limitations" (the limitations being the speed limit that was set to 512 Kbps then later dropped to 128 Kbps) to "download massive amounts of data" (which it is said to be be 35 Gb per day).

The calculations showed that it would take at least 3319 Kbps or 3.2 Mega bits per second to be able to download 35 Gb per day, and this is the speed at which these individuals were connected at - while unlimited.

After bypassing the limit, they "took advantage of the network", so the speed that the network could handle per person, was not less than what was needed to download 35 Gb per day, hence the question - "Being the networks average speed?"