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MOGADISCIO, July 14 (Xinhua) – Internet costs have bottomed out in Kenya as telecoms battle for the growing market, allowing Kenyans to broadcast live the World Cup. World and other television shows. 19659002] Rates have been falling for the last few months, with data becoming the new battleground between service providers of the East African nation, including Telkom, Safaricom, Airtel, Jamii Telkom and Zuku, among others.
the time is to the mobile Internet that accounts for 99% of subscribers, the latter are fighting in the broadband market.
Kenyans currently pay only 1 US dollar for 2 gigabytes (GB) of data, against 10 dollars. And for broadband, telecoms offer $ 10 for unlimited Internet access.
Low fares have become practical for thousands of Kenyans who can broadcast the World Cup on their mobile phone
. "Onyango has not only watched most of the games on the phone so far, but he has also done it cheaply."
"The local TV channel only broadcasted half of the games, the pay TV channel increased its rates, so the phone came to my rescue," he said
. Authority. According to Bernard Mwaso, a consultant at Edell IT Solutions in Nairobi, mobile phone users are the target market for data. "I think that in the future, events such as the Olympics, the Africa Cup of Nations and Formula 1 will be watched exclusively by Kenyans over the phone while the costs of Internet fall, "he said.
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