[kictanet] 4G status

[James Mbugua]

Adam,

Because of the limited spectrum, CCK had sought a joint approach, a
consortium of sorts similar to TEAMS to rollout LTE. But some of the
players are apprehensive about this and want to go it alone. Ericsson had
also offered to build it with no payment upfront but I don't know what came
of that.

I tend to suspect that the fiber rollout by Safaricom is meant to
anticipate its rollout of an LTE network backhauled by this cable it is
rolling out across the country. But that's just my guess.

James


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:09 PM, ICT Researcher
<ict.researcher at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> Adam,
>
> Sorry if come out so blunt...
>
> But I find the tone of some communications striking as "Master to slave"
> directives..
>
> Not embrasing at all. I just had to say
> it and won't respond to any fire I may cause here:-)
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 11:45 AM MSK Adam Nelson wrote:
>
> >What's the status with 4G these days in Kenya?  Is it totally stalled?
> >
> >I just found out that Uganda offers 4G from at least one carrier with 2 or
> >more on the way shortly.
> >
> >Since I can't seem to convince many people on this list to be
> >Internationalists, maybe I can at least appeal to raw national competition
> >to spur movement by the Kenyan authorities/telecoms to catch up to Uganda?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Adam
> >--
> >Kili - Cloud for Africa: kili.io
> >Musings: twitter.com/varud <https://twitter.com/varud>
> >More Musings: varud.com
> >About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson
>
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