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2.2.6.1.8. Wananchi Online Limited
Wananchi On line (2002) reportedly commenced business in March 2000,
with the sole aim of becoming the leading ISP in Africa. The report indicates
that Wananchi Online's mission is to provide comprehensive, efficient and
reliable Internet and information services to corporate organizations, small
to medium-sized enterprises, and individuals using the most up to date
technology. According to the report, Wananchi Online created Kenya's most
affordable and radical pricing policy for internet connectivity, making
Internet affordable and accessible to the Kenyan market. Today, Wananchi
Online is committed to ensuring that the African continent becomes more
widely accessible as the world heads toward becoming one global village.
2.2.6.1.9 UUNET Kenya Ltd.
Reports from UUNET (2001) indicate that this organisation started operating
in 2001, and maintains over 50% of the Internet Bandwidth available in
Kenya. The reports explain that UUNET is also a major global organization
that provides a range of Internet services to more than 70,000 business
customers worldwide. In Kenya, UUNET has a customer base of over 500
corporate organisations, and has expanded countrywide to cover major
economic centres with over 13 Points of Presence (PoP). By providing ISP's
with Internet backbone services, UUNET expects to not only solve bandwidth
problems, but also provide individuals with better browsing and surfing
speeds.
2.2.6.1.10 Kenya Data Networks (KDN)
Hoskins (2004) explains that Kenya Data Networks (KDN) is a full service,
data communications carrier, which was licensed by the Communications
Commission of Kenya (CCK) in January 2003 as a public data network
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