[kictanet] Prime Time data; is safaricom ready?

[robert yawe]

Hi,

There are landlines in all those locations, which raises an interesting issue, 
why did we find it more important to lay a cable for thousands of miles to some 
distant shore yet we had not interconnected our counties?

If you have noticed you can now watch DSTV on your mobile phone which should 
suggest to you that a broadcast does not require 4G and the questions from the 
students can be sent via SMS.

Why do we keep moving the goal posts yet the solutions are right in front of us 
or is it just a case of not wanting to solve the problem?
 Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696




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From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
To: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Tue, 1 February, 2011 13:59:20
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Prime Time data; is safaricom ready?




On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:45 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Definitely with a rate of US$ 400 per hour it definitely is prime time for the 
partners in that group, maybe Airtel can mucky the waters by offering a 
competing product at $1/- per hour.
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>Now all we need to do is leverage the technology to sort out the issue of over 
>crowding in our primary schools and soon our National schools.  
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>If one presenter in Nairobi can present to audiences in Amsterdam, New York, 
>Paris and Istanbul having the same replicated in Karachuonyo, Moyale and 
>Chepalungu should be a synch or is it? 
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Robert,

Perhaps you should wait until the govt finalizes on the plans to roll out 4G/LTE 
platform, then we can start discussing the possibility of the options raised by 
you? To use your own examples, do you suppose there is 3G in Moyale? Is there 
WiMax in Chepalungu?
Broadband (forget 3G in this case as it only works well when there is no voice 
traffic) connectivity is still very wanting in KE.
You should not be overexcited about this. 

-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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