Kenyans are about to learn a VERY expensive lesson about “cheap internet.” Savanna ISP is offering: 100 Mbps - KSh 2,000 1 Gbps - KSh 10,000 And everyone is excited. But let’s slow down and think. Right now in Kenya, 100 Mbps of stable fibre is around KSh 4,500 - 10,000. So when someone comes at 2,000, you shouldn’t celebrate first... You should ask questions. Because the internet is not printed out of thin air . Also, the internet business is math. They don’t own submarine cables or most of the backbone. So they’re buying bandwidth. Wholesale bandwidth is roughly $1-$5 per Mbps. Do the math: 1 Gbps = 1000 Mbps Even at $1, that's ~$1000 (~KSh 130,000) Now explain how that becomes KSh 10,000 to you. Exactly. So what’s really being sold here? Oversubscription. You’re being sold “speed” that assumes you won’t actually use it when others are. And they know it. And this is how it usually plays out: Months 1 and 2: Everything is likely to be fast. People will be tweeting “game changer 🔥”. You will see hashtags here to get more people to join Month 2 going forward: More users join. Evenings will start dragging. Your YouTube will start buffering a lot. Month 3 going forward: Now the reality hits: - Peak hours, e.g., in the evening, feel slow - Speeds jump up and down - Some sites are fast, others struggle - Random downtimes start appearing Not because they’re evil. Because math always wins. This model works beautifully… until too many people sign up. The model is advertised as a success, nice, etc., to bring in more people to join, and eventually, everything hits the end. Then performance becomes the hidden cost. And suddenly that “cheap internet” doesn’t feel cheap anymore. Suddenly, you are stressed, you have to buy more data, and spend even more. If they pull it off, I’ll admit I was wrong. But if you’ve seen this industry before, you already know where this is heading. Go ahead and subscribe, but also retain a backup. Just don’t act surprised later. Bookmark this.