By James Anyanzwa

Instaconnect, a local Internet Service Provider (ISP) is latest signing to the Seacom’s undersea fibre optic cable.

The firm, the first to offer its customers a 300 per cent increase in bandwidth speed, however, maintains that its pricing will remain unchanged at least in the next 12 months to recoup part of the investment costs.

Instaconnect hopes to buy enough capacity from both Teams and Seacom to offer uninterrupted services, known in technology parlance as redundancy.

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"All our clients will enjoy business class link capacities," said Mr Amirali Merali, the firm’s chief operating officer.

The firm is rolling out Internet infrastructure in Mombasa and hopes to be operational in Kisumu, Eldoret and Nakuru before the end of the year.

"We will also offer high quality services on our ‘Wimax’ service, which is accessible in Nairobi and will soon be launched in Mombasa, Nakuru and Kisumu," said Merali told FJ last week.

The company, which pioneered the country’s first certified WiMAX Network in 2005, delivers robust, reliable and scalable broadband Internet services for corporate and home use.

Internet business and access in the country has for a number of years remained a corporate affair with 80 per cent of the three million users being concentrated in Nairobi. But the entry of the undersea fibre optic cables—Teams, Seacom and EASSy— is expected to increase the number of users.