[kictanet] 4G status

[Alice Munyua]

 Future of LTE in Africa:
http://manypossibilities.net/2014/01/africas-lte-future/

Looking forward to voice over LTE. As Steve notes, it will  "present
interesting new challenges for voice quality"

Best
Alice


On 20/01/2014 13:51, Adam Nelson wrote:
> @James, thanks for the info.
> @Mark, LTE is not just about higher bandwidth, it's also about lower
latency and lower per-MB costs in the future.
> @ICT Researcher, your point is well taken and it's the type of thing
that I think about whenever I write to this list.  It's the same reason
that you'll notice no Europeans or Americans ever respond to notes
complaining about the state of ICT in Kenya (even though the list has
many of them) - they're afraid they'll be accused of racism.  I
personally think that there is no fundamental reason that the Kenyan ICT
sector can't compete with those of other countries so I try to just say
it like I see it.  The lack of 4G being on the roadmap is bad for the
country's ICT future, the lack of ability to hire foreign workers is bad
for the entire corporate sector, etc...  and if people don't complain,
nothing will change.  And if you reduce the number of people allowed to
complain to only those who were born here - then even less will happen.
> --
> Kili - Cloud for Africa: kili.io
> Musings: twitter.com/varud
> More Musings: varud.com
> About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:26 PM, James Mbugua <jgmbugua at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     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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