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Kenya
Internet Usage and
Marketing Report
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Country
Profile:
Kenya -
officially named The Republic of Kenya - is a country in Eastern Africa.
It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east, Tanzania to
the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian
Ocean running along the southeast border. Kenya became independent on
December 12th, 1963.
Internet Usage Statistics:
1,111,000
Internet users as of March/2007, 3.2% of the population,
according to ITU
Latest Population
Estimate:
35,062,192
population for 2007, according to world-gazetteer.
Gross National
Income:
GNI per
capita is US$ 530 ('06) and purchasing power parity (ppp) is US$
1,445.
Country Area:
580,367 sq
km
Internet Usage and
Population Growth:
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YEAR
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Users
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Population
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% Pen.
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Usage
Source
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2000
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200,000
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30,339,770
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0.7
%
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ITU
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2006
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1,054,900
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34,222,866
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3.1
%
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ITU
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Kenya
Kenya Telecommunications Reports
Kenya
Telecommunications Convergence, Broadband and Internet Report
Telkom Kenya’s monopoly in Internet backbone and international bandwidth
services ended in 2004 and several new data carriers have been licensed. There
are 72 licensed ISPs of which about half are operational. ADSL and wireless
broadband technologies have been introduced, and VoIP Internet telephony has
been liberalised, promising to bring the long-awaited reduction of international
and long-distance calling rates. A WiMAX network is being rolled out with the
aim of providing converged voice, data and video/broadband TV (triple-play) services.
Kenya
Telecommunications Key Statistics, Regulatory and Fixed Line Telecoms Overview
2005 has been a year of uncertainty for the Kenyan telecommunications market,
but the path of liberalisation taken by the country’s regulator seems
irreversible. The planned licensing of a Second National Operator (SNO) was
aborted in 2004, the privatisation of a majority stake in Telkom postponed to
2006, and the validity of the country’s third mobile licence is still
uncertain. At the same time, however, the ban on VoIP has been lifted and
Telkom Kenya’s monopoly in the provision of Internet backbone and
international bandwidth services broken, immediately leading to massive price
reductions and better services in these sectors. And yet, enormous further
potential remains, with mobile and fixed-line penetration only at around
15% and 1%, respectively.
Kenya
Mobile Market - Overview and Statistics
Kenya’s mobile market has witnessed phenomenal growth rates since the
second GSM operator launched in 2000. Mobile phones now outnumber fixed lines
by around 20:1. Enormous further potential remains, with mobile penetration at
only around 15%. Both operators are carrying out massive network expansion
programs. Econet Wireless won the bid for the country’s third GSM licence
in 2003, but the licensing process has since been challenged in court. Mobile
number portability and the permission for mobile networks to operate their own
international gateways from 2006 are expected to give further impetus to the market.
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Kenya Internet ICT Background
October 27, 2006
The Internet first became available in Kenya during 1993. Full Internet
access was established in 1995. The African Regional Centre for Computing
(ARCC), an NGO based in Nairobi , Kenya , became the first provider of
web-based Internet service. The first commercial ISP, Formnet began operating
in 1995. Soon competition increased with the entry of three other ISPs. All
the ISPs would lease analogue or digital data lines from Kenya to the US to
access the Internet backbone.
In 2000, there were about 200,000 Internet users in Kenya , with an estimated
monthly growth of 300 new subscribers each month. The main users of the Internet
in Kenya are Multinational corporations, international organizations and NGOs.
All the government’s ministries are now accessible via the internet.
The latest estimate of Internet users for Kenya from the ITU is 1,054,900 people,
corresponding to a penetration rate of 3.1%. At present there are 72 licensed
ISPs of which about half are operational. Currently the Communications
Commission of Kenya (CCK) is considering conducting a comprehensive Internet
Usage Study to confirm the real number of users in Kenya.
Since many people in Kenya do not have fixed phone lines, computers, or
electricity, internet shops, known as cyber cafes, provide access to internet
and email, mainly in the major towns. A major factor that may have influenced
the use of ICT positively in Kenya is the use of the English language. English
is the official language in Kenya, and Information Technology (IT) services are
largely based in English, so this has been an advantage.
Further reading on Kenya:
Communications
Commision of Kenya
Get the latest information about
telecommunications in Kenya.
ISOC Kenya
Website
ISOC Kenya news, lifestyle, money, news, sports, politics,
top stories, and important links can be found here.
Kenya Government
Website
Kenya news and important links can be found here.
Kenya Newspapers
Links
Most important daily news and information from
Zimbabwe here.
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