[kictanet] Ethiopia and Tunisia reaping the fruit of a rejuvenated copper plant

[Brian Munyao Longwe]

300,000 connections at the time the copper was taken over 5 yrs ago is not
something to sneer at. Besdies that, remember that all the current fhigh
speed broadband services, Zuku, Faiba etc are using copper for the "last
mile"

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On Apr 10, 2013 8:09 AM, "Mark Mwangi" <mwangy at gmail.com> wrote:

> From What I gather the copper network of Telecom was not that extensive to
> begin with. Granted there was no other player with such an extended network
> but is it worthwhile to keep talking about copper whilst it is limited in
> how much bandwith it can offer? Why not future proof?
>
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> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Ethiopia and Tunisia deliver high speed data over wireline while here in
>> Kenya we have allowed France Telecom who have management of Telkom Kenya to
>> basically neglect and "throw away" our copper plant - and yet it could be
>> the basis for providing affordable high speed access to hundreds of
>> thousands. The new government *must* review this counterproductive
>> "strategic investment" from France. Preferably show them the door and let
>> us rebuild our national carrier. Full story here http://ictafrica.info/
>> FullNews.php?id=8231<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fictafrica.info%2FFullNews.php%3Fid%3D8231&h=6AQG9pG3RAQFMErU7Uu3mvEUPpn6e6H9D64HDcC36A89x5Q&s=1>
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>> Best regards,
>>
>> Brian
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> Mark Mwangi
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