Date sent: Thu, 13 Jul 1995
From: Christopher P Koch, African Studies Association
<ckoch@emory.edu>
Karisi Communications, (Kenya) Ltd. has announced Africa Online
(SM), its newest service, in Nairobi, Kenya. Africa Online (SM) is a
full fledged online system which provides subscribers with access to
entertainment and productivity services such as local and Internet mail
(including universal conferencing via Usenet Newsgroups and chat
sessions) at prices and quality that are unmatched in the Kenyan marketplace.
Africa Online's services include the following:
* Electronic mail to local and any of the millions of Internet users.
* Electronic faxing to local and international destinations.
* Local and international electronic conferences including
Usenet Newsgroups, Kenya-net and other Internet conferences.
* Local and international news, including Reuters, and AP,
stock exchange results.
* Local forums on topics including IT, travel, health, and
finance moderated by leading local experts.
* Easy-to-use, fully documented and commercially supported
end-user software which enables new subscribers to subscribe
themselves within minutes. Subscribers can connect to the system
using either Macintosh, IBM-compatible PCs, or any other
computer.
* Support for virtually every modem.
* Local access phone numbers in Nairobi.
* Highly trained staff with experience on the Internet in the
United States.
* Ownership of, and 24 hour monitoring of, the link to the Internet.
* Special corporate electronic mail and other services,
including Worldwide Web pages on Karisi Communications' WWW
server (http://www.afrique.com/).
* Local access via trunk lines from Uganda and Tanzania.
Africa Online's personnel have a combined 35 years of experience on
the Internet and networking in the United States and East Africa.
Their intimate knowledge of local conditions, positions them well to
meet the region's electronic communications needs now and in
the future.
More information is also available at the www server located at the
URL address http://www.afrique.com/.
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Africa Online is a Service Mark of Karisi Communications, Inc. and Karisi
Communications (Kenya) Ltd.