[kictanet] Network outage

[Sam Gatere]

Sam,
Thats a good question. And you are not the first to experiences poor or lack
of services in similar circumstances. Would this then mean that our CellCo
providers are unable to anticipate this kind of scenarios? every year there
will be a graduation and every year there will be more cell phone users. Are
the transmitter base stations in these trouble spots not able to perform
Cell Breathing which is meant to provide a form of Load balancing when one
or more base stations experience high traffic? Maybe it's high  time our
major providers introduces the  PPT (Push to Talk) service on your phone it
will at least free up some of the frequency available since your traditional
hand set will consume some frequency for "listening" and
for transition whereas in a PPT scenario you only use frequency while
actually transmitting or receiving, effectively making your phone a two way
radio.


SammyG

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Sam Aguyo <saguyo at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Dear Listeners,
>
> On the 18 September, 2009 University of Nairobi held its graduation where
> quite a number of people turned up.  However, i noted that no calls could be
> made from or to the venue.  I disparately called a 0721... 0720... from my
> 0722... number between around 10AM to 2:00PM thereabouts with little
> success.
>
> My wonder is, was this deliberate courtesy of University of Nairobi, does
> it mean that the service providers run into problems when a huge number of
> subscribers gather at a central point or what could course this.  It is
> important to get an explanation for good planning in future since telephony
> has become part of our lives.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sam
>
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