Comments on: Kenya’s Very Own CNBC?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:08:33 +0000

all your comments are correct but unfortunately don’t change our current predicament of poor internet services run by over-zealous corporate entities. i am of the opinion that we should put out ads for tendering a private company locally founded and humbly grown to solve the issue at hand.yaliopita si ndwele tugange yajayo!!

kompnatt@yahoo.com

By: kikis

kikis — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:53:30 +0000

KE
Yes, a big time trader who knows what he’s doing can move back and start “an internet site”

By: kikis

kikis — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:50:28 +0000

I registered and was able to access the material in seconds. Why don’t you guys stop being jealous!

By: Gachie

Gachie — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:04:39 +0000

in regards of rich.co.ke, that is a site poorly organized, very dull and have no “rich feel”. I tried registering but the code never made it to my inbox, good idea tho. Do you guys think Access Kenya might get a chance after we get the cables? what will the scenario be for most of this companies? I personally think Safaricom will dominate that market too since they will have all the investors money to spend.

By: KE

KE — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:33:37 +0000

Petej:

I don’t think he was a “big-time trader”. If you are making millions of dollars in the financial capitals of the world (New York and London) – you don’t move back to Kenya to set-up an internet site where you are trying to charge people for information.

By: mm

mm — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:05:54 +0000

http://www.nationmedia.com

By: peteJ

peteJ — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:41:03 +0000

the guy behind rich.co.ke, what exactly is his gameplan. Is he an investor (i know he’s been a bigtime trader in NY/LN) or in the media/stocks-info business?

Just curious…

By: Annon

Annon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:52:16 +0000

Arafathi:

That is a very interesting article. So far, it looks like the government has sunk 60 million dollars of TAXPAYER money into the project with the so-called 11 “private partners” in kenya having sunk nothing! not one penny.

But yet, these private partners, who have so far borne no financial risk for this project are going to be allocated majority shares? According to the article,

“The ministry insists that the 11 companies will bear the greater part of the financial burden of the construction”.

Who is going to ensure that these 11 companies do this? and are they going to pay back the 60 million used so far or are they going to come up with additional money that is still needed?

This whole thing is very confusing.

By: Arafathi

Arafathi — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:19:23 +0000

Wow! The commitment fee alone paid by the CCK is equivalent to the total cost of the project…

A very interesting piece, i think this explains why Kenyans have to wait a little longer for this undersea fibre optic cable!
http://www.nationmedia.com/dai.....sid=125543