[kictanet] FW: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] ICT BACKBONE: A solution in search of a problem or is it just a white elephant?

[aki]

The backbone article is quite important. I'd suggest a response to my post.
As usual, corrections are welcome. :)

Very briefly:

I'd highly recommend you to do some reseach. Some questions : Are our
wireless networks capable of future trends such as triple play and megabit
capacities to sustain such services? How will this affect the consumer/end
user? How will this affect the uptake of capacities? How will all this
affect pricing and demand?

My personal understanding so far,  operators such as safaricom 3G, Kdn (
fiber/copper), Jtl ( fiber ) , Tkl ( fiber/copper) are visionaries with
future trends. If the Int'l FON were to arrive in kenya today, their clients
would see the benefits immediately.

Or simply, would you please speculate on the smallest internet package to be
available to kenyans when the under sea fiber gets here? If its going to be
32 - 512kbps, then please refer to my post about bottlenecks and idle
capacity.

I'm not sure if there are any special policies that are running parallel
with the under sea fiber program but success or not of the entire fiber
project may depend on these. The internet will be the primary driving force
behind the growth of the local fiber networks.

Rgds.







On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru at yahoo.com> wrote:

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