I thought this is interesting

Last week my family and I were seating in the malls having a snack from Wimpy! A Caucasian male smiled at me, thinking whether to ask me a question or not. I smiled back, and that broke the ice, he came near and asked, "Do you have a blog" I said "Yea" He spoke with highly enthusiasm, "hi, I'm from California, and I visited your blog while you where in USA, and few days ago, I visited it again, and thought wow, you're in Kenya." I thought that was nice, we chatted for few minutes... We living in a small world indeed.

Inernet, and phone service in Kenya!

When we first arrived in Nairobi, Internet, and phone connection were some of the things on our top list. You gotta be connected right? Y, right. Anyway, we asked couple people to give us insight on these. Safaricom, Zain, and Orange are the two most internet, and phone services provider in Kenya; however, Safaricom is the most popular one, and many people prefer it because it's easily accessible and faster; you see all the people around selling fruits, snacks, you can buy your top up cards for as law as 20 Kes. We didn't waste much time, on the first month we bought ourselves a safaricom modem, that you can connect to your laptom, and you go wireless. It's fast and very reliable, but a bit expensive. The modem costs 3,999 Kes, and you're charged per MB. The beauty about this is that you can travel to Mombasa, and many other east African countries, and still be connected. Now the phone, because I have a dual card cell phone, I decided to try Zain too, and guess what it's cheaper than safaricom, but I still use my Safaricon number to call the Safaricon friends. Unlike in the US, in Kenya you can receive a call or sms message from anywhere in the world, any time, any day it's free you hear that my friends in US....Don't have to wait for weekends or after 9pm to receive calls. But, there are no free weekends, or free after 9pm and before 8am like in the US. I think I like this system more because you don't have to spend much time on the phone. Safaricom does not offer monthly payments, so this make it very expensive especially if you use your internet for business wise. But the good news is we're waiting for the arrival of the fiber optic cable expected between October and December of 09. Africa has much potential and business opportunities.