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Few days ago, Safaricom CEO, Bob Collymore announced that the company discontinued its unlimited internet on the modems and handsets. What shocked was the announcement that the company is not making money from the unlimited data sales and usage. Collymore…
I have written so much about local hosting; why it should be promoted, the disappointment and double speak of government officials who say how the industry is growing yet they show lack of faith in the industry by outsourcing services…
Joe Mucheru is the new Google Kenya country lead, taking over from Olga Arara-Kimani. After overseeing the establishment and growth of Google in Africa, from single staff to 80, from one country to eight, Mucheru will now be concentrating his…
I have written so much about KENIC, the .ke country code Top Level Domain administrator that this post will have to be a short one 🙂 you can read more here. David Wambua, the fourth CEO in five years has…
ICANN constituencies meeting Day two at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is all about constituencies meeting. It is the day that the country code Name Supporting Organization (ccNSO) members meet the board, and also start their daily…
In Kenya, there are some things that are almost obvious in business; like if a mobile operator claims to gun for Safaricom’s market share, you know its a tall order or when a start up develops a product modeled along…
The other day I got an invite to visit .co.za (South Africa) registry and given my following or obsession over domains in Africa, I could not miss a chance, even if its just for the sake of writing a blog…
I have been a proponent of buying African domains- .ke, .tz .za etc this is well demonstrated by the number of posts on this blog, over the years. There is a lot of controversy but thats not the topic for…
I must admit that CJ, the guy who owns Jamii Telecom is a master businessman; he laid fiber in all major towns when companies were wondering whether to do it or not and when others were focussing on the end…
When I read that Nokia was down grading its Nairobi office to just the sales office, I wasn’t shocked, it was a matter of when not if. But I expected the changes to be more mild. I started thinking of…