[kictanet] Wirelessweek: ItXs All Mobile Now

[Kai U. Wulff]

Hello,

we have ALL our masts manufactured locally (you pay around 15 000 KSH for a proper small mast per 3m segment). A BTS is about 50m (if you want to have the reach for rural deployments) and needs to be more massive (done by HYoung locally).
You still nedd the extras and even a local ISP will need a Gateway Service, should be peered at KIXP ....... so backhauls.

We provide Franchise for local "operators" whereby we outsource the operation and the maintenance of a mast side to a local partner in rural areas! This gives the option to have a unified system while still enabling the community!

We believe (as we are not a large Telco) that we can justify to blanket the whole country using motivated local partners .. THAT is what KDN is all about!

Kai

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alex Gakuru 
  To: kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke 
  Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:32 PM
  Subject: Re: [kictanet] Wirelessweek: ItXs All Mobile Now


  Hey Kai,
   
  But I am not talking about a national company here, just increasing options for the small rural ISP outreach (where large telcos this far lack the business case justifying heavy investment you outlined).

  I know salaries, office  rent, security watchmen, etc are all needed. 

  BTW there are local guys who are making masts at Kshs 60,000/= each and they're great. Unless they should also be imported?

  Gakuru
   
  "Kai U. Wulff" <kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke> wrote:
    If you dont need a mast, power, security, switching and Backhaul ...

    The BTS is not the issue but the O&M and the CPEs ..

    Btw. we had 68 Wimax BTS!

    Kai
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Alex Gakuru 
      To: kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke 
      Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 2:01 PM
      Subject: Wirelessweek: ItXs All Mobile Now


      Strange with shillings 1.4 million one WiMAX base station is up and running?
      .....

      Adaptix announced the pricing and availability of its compact mobile base stations and mobile terminals for mobile WiMAX. The company's BX-3000 series of base stations are priced starting at $19,995 for a single-sector configuration, with three-sector configurations starting at $39,995. Adaptix also announced that its BX-3000 base station and San Francisco-300 mobile terminal participated in the recent WiMAX Forum interoperability PlugFest.

      < http://www.wirelessweek.com/article/CA6379821.html >

      /Alex 

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