KDN UNVEILS LOW COST BROADBAND SOLUTION

 Nairobi, 5th February 2010. Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) and businesses that operate in Small offices and Home offices (SoHos) will enjoy high capacity, affordable and reliable Internet service to promote their growth. This follows the launch of Butterfly Optic Xpress (BOX), by Kenya Data Networks (KDN).

BOX is set to provide high broadband capacity that will enable the transfer of large files, the use of Voice over Internet services and greater access to web based streaming and download of videos on demand, thus benefiting directly from the huge capacity made available locally through the KDN terrestrial fiber infrastructure.

Businesses seeking cheaper and reliable broadband solutions will enjoy guaranteed connectivity with refunds on downtime. According to Kai Wulff the KDN Chief Executive Officer, SME’s consider the cost and the quality of service as key when selecting a broadband solution. “BOX is a solution that will address both cost and quality by offering guarantees on the best broadband connectivity at the lowest market price,” says Kai.

KDN has already connected over 400 buildings in Nairobi and across the country with the terrestrial fiber. BOX targets SMEs and SoHos in all these fibre buildings. “The process has been simplified because SMEs will only have to confirm whether their building has a fiber connection from KDN and call KDN to be provided with BOX. Our resellers will visit the site immediately and carry out a survey after which BOX will be connected free of charge to their offices,” says Kai.

This puts KDN as the only provider who will be offering the cheapest bandwidth solution in the market. An SME that uses 1MB per month will now be able to theoretically download 324,000MBs in one month. This is equivalent to 324 Gigabytes of data in a month, for which SMEs will be paying only 1 cent per MB.