Guys if I may share a few thoughts and perhaps set the record straight
1 - Fibre might be lit up to Mombasa as of July 23 - but its not like a power extension cable that people can just plug into and switch on their devices
2 - Until it 'arrived' no one dared even come up with new offerings e.g. higher speeds at lower costs - in fact most who expected the arrival a month ago,had to renegotiate agreements to satellite providers to pay for costly bandwidth for a longer period given the delay.
3 - KDN 'might' be connected but not availing the capacity for use,rather for testing it with select subscribers. Its too soon to start this and I do not see the NEW CAPACITY being packaged as a new product until the end of August by which time all telcos,ISP,etc will have connected,tested and tried it. Otherwise right now its like selling vaporware.
4 - KDN is NOT an ISP but a carrier of carriers - unless you are EABL,KQ,Barclays - they cannot connect you - only BIG clients and other operators - as such Safaricom/Zain/Wananchi/Access Kenya etc can use KDN's terrestrial fibre (from Mombasa to Busia and within various towns) - its through KDN that SEACOM badnwidth will come to Nairobi (and onward to the west up to Kigali). The same operators will presumaly use Telkoms terrestrial cable in the same way in the same geography. At some point they will use both since they want redundancy
5 - Take with a pinch of salt issues abt 3G being fast and some providers being fast. Here is the thing,if a site is hosted in Kenya and you try to access it - it WILL be super fast because your provider is connected to a terrestrial fibre cable (Jamii or Access Kenya). Even if its first through Wi-Max. You might try to Google something (and if your IP address is in Kenya,when you type
www.google.com,you will get
www.google.co.ke which is local - you need to understand that Google have 500,000 servers scattered around the world. constantly caching websites and content) - so when you google 'Lance Armstring' using
www.google.co.ke,and you get super fast results and can even access some of the content,you should know that content sits on a server somewhere here and that you are getting it from a cache not the actual host. So things might not seems as they appear.
6 - I suspect SCOM's distribution channel includes hawkers these days - perhaps the people who never recouped their money back on Simu ya Jamii,were given the crates and crates of Chinese made USB modems to hawk anywhere and taught the right pitch - thus we see some hawking modems here for 3k (modems that were once 12k). Some are dealerships or distributors seeking to move inventory since Orange is making gargantuan strides in data - they can see the juggernaut coming and don't want to be stuck with the modems....thats IMHO.
The problem with equality is that we desire that it be with those that have more than us rather that those that have less