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Google Opens Up Shop in Kenya

by Tom Conlon on June 28, 2007 at 09:24 AM

Google's next stop in its quest for world domination is sub-Saharan Africa, where its new Kenyan operations are headed up by Joseph Mucheru, former CEO of local ISP. Wananchi. According to Mucheru, Google's biggest roadblock to success in the region is the Kenyan people's lack of access to affordable bandwidth, something he claims Google may actually subsidize the expense of in order to get people connected. That's nice, but has Google seen what Americans are paying for high-speed Internet access these days?
Google's next stop in its quest for world domination is sub-Saharan Africa, where its new Kenyan operations are headed up by Joseph Mucheru, former CEO of local ISP. Wananchi. According to Mucheru, Google's biggest roadblock to success in the region is the Kenyan people's lack of access to affordable bandwidth, something he claims Google may actually subsidize the expense of in order to get people connected. That's nice, but has Google seen what Americans are paying for high-speed Internet access these days?

From Boing Boing

Tags: africa, search

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