Kenya Medical Training College web site launched this week by Dotsavvy at http://www.kmtc.ac.ke
Monthly Archive for December, 2008
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Its finally happened. YU, Kenya’s latest mobile network operator has launched today. Everyone has been wondering what tariff package YU would offer since Safaricom, Zain and Orange had already made deep cuts in their tariffs over the last few months.
According to this morning’s press coverage, YU has launched with a rate of Kes. 7.50 per minute to all other mobile networks – this is impressive considering that they are just getting off the ground and need to tap into existing mobile network’s users. At the same time, YU is offering an added incentive of paying all customers Kes. 0.75 per minute for receiving calls from the other Kenyan mobile networks. The accumulated bonus airtime will be credited the following month for usage by YU subscribers.
SMS within the YU network will be Kes. 2.00 per text sent however I have yet to find rates for inter-network SMS. At this time, the YU web site has very limited information on services and the company but this bound to change in the next couple of weeks as they probably launch additional services like data and internet. It looks like the coming year is going to be very interesting in the mobile telecommunications sector as all four mobile networks in Kenya go head to head to win customers!
I have been keenly following the exploits of Kenya’s Rugby Sevens Squad over the last couple of years. In time, they have matured and become true ambassadors of Kenya’s growing sporting dominance. This weekend at the Emirates Dubai Rugby Sevens was no exception.
Once again, Kenya’s Rugby Sevens team demonstrated their sterling credentials by beating the Arabian Gulf team 28 – 7. This was followed by Kenya beating Scotland 38 – 0, a huge result all things considered. They then fell to eventual winners South Africa 31 – 0 at which point they managed to get into the quarter finals of the main cup event. They then played New Zealand who only barely managed to beat them 21 – 5 before they exited the main cup and entered the Plate event.
It was in the Plate that they beat Argentina 26 – 24 after a hard fought game after coming from behind 19 – 0 at half-time. Finally, in the plate semi-final, Kenya lost to Samoa, one of the world’s renowned Rugby Sevens Teams by a narrow margin of 7 -12. All in all. this means that Kenya go into the next IRB round in South Africa with confidence that once again they can take on the world’s best teams and come out as winners!
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