Business Daily - Cyber café business booms amid stiff competition Home Cyber café business booms amid stiff competition Share Bookmark Print Email Email this article to a friend Friend's Email Address Your Email Message Submit Cancel Rating Analysts had anticipated a decline in customers in cyber cafes with the advent of cheaper Internet modem and computers. Growing number of students has enabled the business to remain profitable./Reuters By Abyssinia Lati (email the author) Your Email Message Send Cancel Posted Tuesday, July 14 2009 at 00:00 Despite the cheaper computers and wireless Internet modems flooding the market, people are still trooping to the cyber cafés to check emails and surf the Internet. While analysts had predicted that the influx of low-cost modems and computers could spell the death knell for cyber cafés, this seems not to be happening. It costs around Sh12,000 to buy a locally-assembled PC while a laptop could cost you as low as Sh19,000. Modems are going for