Kenya gets first broadband Internet connection - tagesschau.de

Kenya gets first broadband internet
First fiber optic cable f� � r East Africa
Stop Internet frustration in Kenya
Surfing in Kenya is a test of patience. Connections via satellite last for an eternity and cost a lot of money. But thanks to the first broadband Kenyans will soon be on the fast data highway nnen.Von surfen k� � Marc Engelhardt, ARD-H� � rfunkstudio NairobiEin Internet Caf� � in Kenya's capital Nairobi: desks, computers, monitors and human h� � nts here densely gedr� � depends on each other. Especially in the evening hours forming queues of impatient waiting. Kenya's young generation, more than half of Bev� � lkerung, wants the Internet and is frustrated. "It takes a long time until somebody comes up," says Joseph, one of the Internet users. I needed 15 minutes just to retrieve my emails. Spaß does not do that. "Surfing is only at a snail's pace





[Photo caption: With broadband connections is surfing in Kenya hopefully affordable. ]

The prices in Kenya Internetcaf� � s, an hour will cost around a third of what a Tagel� � hner deserves, is the most civic � �. The reason for the poor connections to Europe during the 48k modems remember is that everything about satellite l� � UFT. Eight years after the start of the new millennium, Africa is still not connected to global data network, white Venansius Baryamureeba, Professor f� � r computer technology to Uganda's Makerere University-t. "The cost for bandwidth r is a large challenge for r Africa. An Internet connection, for the one in Europe, perhaps ten U.S. dollars paid, will cost one thousand U.S. dollars in Africa. With a fiber optic cable would � rden us internet only cost one tenth." Mobile phones � replace the Internet so far no wonder that in Africa many years into the Internet, but will be invested in mobile phones. Almost everyone has a cellphone, which is all Bankgesch� � fte f� � hren or water and electricity bills can be paid. Most phones also have UMTS, finally, there is even slow wireless internet only Zuga � nge.





[Photo caption: Whether Bankgesch� � fte or electricity bills - in Africa will do everything over the phone settled. ]

But in a few months everything will be different. Since a week, the first fiber optic cable, which consists of Saudi Arabia comes to East Africa. Etienne Fouques, Regional Director of Alcatel, is thrilled. "The network with a capacity of t Next 130 megabytes per second is easy to over a terabyte per second expanded. Kenya can undoubtedly become a new hub of information technology in this region." � fiber optic cable is economic ankurbelnKenias government has already a massive education campaign angek� � ndigt to young people for the real use of the Internet training. Long cherished Tra � ume of e-business to be true, as well as the more Spaß in cyberspace. Since Facebook extra for the new Target on its pages Swahili offering Kenyans are fire and flame. "I'm just over three hours on Facebook," says the Sch� � ler George Mungai Munyaki. "This is more than before, because Swahili, this is my language. English is a foreign language, and I am in a language expressly � cken, I know better." With a little effort, as is Professor Baryamureeba sure the fiber optic cable can a small economic miracle follow. "Telefongespr� surface will be cheaper, and this leads to job opportunities such as in India, which benefited from outsourcing." � The hopes are huge in Kenya, a country with an unemployment rate of about 75 percent. End of the year, the first really fast Internet connections are available.

Africa will soon be on the Internet [M. Engelhardt, ARD Nairobi].