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

[Ali Hussein]

Brian

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The greatest tragedy of Telkom Kenya is that they truly have not leveraged
on their legacy systems.

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On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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"
>
> -- Sent from my TRON Lightcycle --
> 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?
>>
>>
>> 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>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Brian
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>>
>> Mark Mwangi
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