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INFORMATION FOR THE PRESS
For immediate release
2nd August 2007

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CTO and Kenya Work Together to Prepare for Post 3G Era

The CTO is to run a multi-stakeholder workshop on mobile technologies 
beyond 3G in Nairobi, Kenya from the 6th to the 10th August. The 
workshop is organised as part of a CTO-CCK programme to help telecom 
professionals in Kenya gain a thorough understanding of the 
opportunities future mobile network generations hold for access to 
mobile services and ICTs.

Like most Commonwealth countries, Kenya embraced the potential of new 
technologies as an opportunity to extend public services and improve 
trade through new applications such as e-commerce and m-commerce. And 
with today’s ever increasing data processing and the transmission 
capabilities of handsets and networks and their relative lower cost 
compared with traditional PCs, mobile telephony is proving the most 
likely means for the unconnected masses in developing countries, not 
only to experience and use the Internet on a regular basis, but to fully 
integrate the information economy.

For this to become a nation-wide reality, these new applications require 
trained engineers and business managers, and also networks to migrate to 
more spectrum-efficient transmission systems and standards.

The workshop will give telecoms professionals in Kenya a detailed 
understanding of both the evolution from 2G to 3G and the network 
elements and air interface of the original UMTS system. Furthermore, the 
course will be covering other broadband services such as WLAN, Wimax and 
MWBA, whilst also looking at LTE (Long Term Evolution) and how the 
latest developments in UMTS will push the technology very close to 4G 
requirements. In fact, the aim in the end is for participants to be able 
to understand and leverage the UMTS and IEEE standards.

CTO is intensifying its programmes on new technologies for greater 
access. Earlier this year, three Kenyans from CCK were sent by CTO to a 
high-level workshop in Yaoundé, Cameroon on frequency planning and 
spectrum management for NGN. And to spur member countries interest on 
the potential of NGN, the CTO is holding a major conference on NGN and 
convergence.

Organised within CTO's Programme for Development and Training (PDT) in 
partnership with CCK and Nokia Siemens Networks, the Nairobi workshop 
will last five days.

As the Commonwealth capacity building programme for ICTs, the PDT is a 
unique corporate membership programme for sharing of industry best 
practices in a uniquely fast-moving and global industry. Hundreds of ICT 
professionals from public and private sector organisations around the 
world benefit from its professional development programmes each year, 
built around a mix of high-quality training, networking and consulting 
in four main areas: ICT policy development, regulation, technology and 
business management.


For more information and to register to attend, contact:

Juliet Manuel
Programme Management Officer
Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation
Tel.: +44 870 777 7697
j.manuel at cto.int 
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