1.Speed of transmission required - in many cases it is perfectly satisfactory to use ordinary postal service,Kenyan rail or private courier service.
2.Whether data transmission will be one-way or two-way.
3.Accuracy and reliability required.
4.Cost of each type of data transmission method.
5.Whether data should be transmitted direct to the computer on-line.
6.Volume of data to be processed; and whether it is batched at particular times, or whether it is collected individually and required to be processed immediately.
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