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Unlike most of the countries where bandwidth is available via fibre optic cables, Kenya still has obsolete way of getting connected to Internet. Bandwidth in the country is accessed via satellite links. Internet via satellite links is12 times more costly than bandwidth. Take for example South Africa, where one megabyte of bandwidth costs about $300, compared to Kenya where the cheapest one megabyte bandwidth costs $4000.

Hopefully, Kenya by 2009 will see submarine fiber optic cable being layed which will reduce the bandwidth costs by good 60-65%.