Orange has announced that it will make download speeds of upto 20Mbits/s standard across all its home broadband plans with immediate effect.

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Now before you jump of your seat to run to your nearest Orange store, this new offer was made available for Orange home users in the UK.

Orange UK also introduced 4 new price plans starting from as little as £6.50 (Ksh 815) Per month. None of the plans are restricted or limited to data caps. As part of the new deal, Orange UK’s Home max package will include evening and weekend calls to UK landlines. Home Ultra, one of the new plans introduced, comes with an Orange Livebox wireless router that can connect upto 10 computers at a time. The package also enables the users to make calls to 30 countries ant any given time, this includes calls to UK landlines. Home Ultra costs from £10.50 (Ksh 1300) per month for postpaid users & £13.50 (Kshs 1700) for postpaid users.

This can not even be compared to the pricing structure available from any ISP within Kenya at the moment where 10 times less bandwidth – 256kb/s costs from about £21 (Kshs 2600), with no extras such as free minutes.

Kenyan ISP’s really need to review their strategies and encourage more users to get online locally on better connectivity options. One of the major hindrances to new users is the huge investments required for equipment followed by extremely unfair high pricing for minimal bandwidth.