[kictanet] CA¹s Sh85m plan to link remote areas with mobile voice

Mon Feb 26 17:32:42 EAT 2018

Yes Kivuva, that is correct.  The coverage in the report is
population-based, but the requirement for election coverage was land-based
because the polling stations are spread across locations.  The land -based
coverage stands at 45%.  Hope this helps you contextualize the statistics.

Regards, 

Rachel 

On 2/26/18, 5:23 PM, "lordmwesh at gmail.com on behalf of Mwendwa Kivuva"
<lordmwesh at gmail.com on behalf of Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:

>This is great feedback Rachel, and avoids misreprepresentation.
>
>I digress a little, but some of these statistics come to haunt CA
>during the August elections when the State declared that we did not
>have coverage for electronic tranmission of elections.
>
> "To support the foregoing, the Authority in May 2016 concluded a
>Study on ICTs Access Gaps which established that population coverage
>in Kenya for 2G and 3G stands at 94.4% and 78% respectively, while the
>land coverage for 2G and 3G is at 45% and 17% respectively for all the
>three Mobile Network Operators i.e Safaricom (K) Limited, Airtel (K)
>Limited and Telkom Kenya Limited."
>______________________
>Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>twitter.com/lordmwesh
>
>
>
>
>On 26 February 2018 at 15:23, Alwala, Rachel via kictanet
><kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> Hello listers,
>>
>> The narrative that CA has just set aside a budget of Ksh. 85 million to
>>link
>> remote areas with mobile voice is erroneous and misleading.  The
>>Universal
>> Service Fund is a huge programme whose activities are guided by detailed
>> research.  A lot has been achieved so far in line with the mandate
>>given to
>> CA by the Law.
>>
>>
>> As a reminder, the Kenya Information Communications Amendment Act of
>>2009
>> (KICA 2009) created the Universal Service Fund (USF) whose objective is
>>to
>> support widespread access to ICTs including related human capacity
>>building
>> and technological innovations in the ICT sector. The Act mandates the
>> Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) with the administrative and
>>management
>> responsibility of promoting universal access and services with respect
>>to
>> the provision of communication services in Kenya.
>>
>>
>>
>> The USF is expected to provide incentives for infrastructure roll-out in
>> unserved and underserved areas. To support the foregoing, the Authority
>>in
>> May 2016 concluded a Study on ICTs Access Gaps which established that
>> population coverage in Kenya for 2G and 3G stands at 94.4% and 78%
>> respectively, while the land coverage for 2G and 3G is at 45% and 17%
>> respectively for all the three Mobile Network Operators i.e Safaricom
>>(K)
>> Limited, Airtel (K) Limited and Telkom Kenya Limited.
>>
>>
>>
>> To close the identified gaps in the different service areas, Authority
>>has
>> developed a 5-year USF Implemetation Strategy to guide the activities
>>of the
>> Fund for the next five years FY 2017/18 to FY2022/23. One of the five
>> strategic focus area is basic voice infrastructure program whose
>>objective
>> is to  facilitate development of basic mobile infrastructure to the
>>whole
>> country Turkana and Marsabit Counties included.
>>
>>
>>
>> The ICTs Access Gaps study using GIS and Access Gap Model methodology
>> identified 348 sub-locations, which were established to meet the
>>critical
>> performance criteria suited for “smart subsidies”, meaning that the
>>projects
>> would be sustainable. In the FY 2017/18, the Access Gaps Study
>>prioritized
>> the closing of gaps in 202 prime sub-locations, covering an unserved
>> population of approximately 700,000 persons. The project design took
>>into
>> consideration the 2016/18 licence obligations of Safaricom and Airtel
>>for
>> network expansion, together with which, the project targeted reducing
>>the
>> coverage gap of basic voice services from 5.6% of the population to
>>2.8% by
>> 2018.
>>
>>
>>
>> Update on the Voice Infrastructure Projects
>>
>>
>>
>> The voice infrastructure projects were developed and tendered in the FY
>> 2017/18 and as single or multiple bidding lots to Network Facility
>>Providers
>> (NFP) Tier 1. The 202 sub-locations were tendered in 105 bidding lots.
>>The
>> licensed mobile network operators were invited to bid competitively for
>>as
>> many or few of the Lots as of interest to them.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Authority has awarded contracts to Safaricom and Telkom Kenya to
>>close
>> the voice gaps in 78 sub-locations at a cost of Kshs 1.245 Billion.
>>Among
>> the beneficiary counties in Kenya are Turkana, Samburu, West Pokot,
>>Baringo,
>> Marsabit, Isiolo, Wajir, Mandera, Garissa, Tana River, Kwale, Kajiado
>>and
>> Narok.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Education Broadband Connectivity Project
>>
>> Within the current FY 2017/18, the Authority awarded the Education
>>broadband
>> contract to three Tier 2 operators, namely;
>>
>>
>>
>> 1)    Ms. Xtranet Communications Limited  284 schools
>>
>> 2)    Ms. Commcarrier Satellite Services  291 schools
>>
>> 3)    Ms. Liquid Telecommunications Ltd  321 schools
>>
>> Status of Implementation of the Education Broadband Connectivity Project
>>
>> To date, the Authority through the contracted firms, has successfully
>> installed broadband connectivity in 843 (94%) of the expected 896
>> beneficiary schools. The contractors have given strong indication that
>>the
>> remaining 53 schools will be fully connected before end of February
>>2018.
>> The total contract amount for the Education broadband project is Kshs
>>837
>> million.
>>
>>
>>
>> We hope that this helps to put the fund implementation into
>>perspective.  As
>> always, we remain available to respond to any enquiries.  We shall be
>>having
>> a stakeholder briefing soon and KICTANET listers as our stakeholders,
>>shall
>> be invited to the forum.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Rachel Alwala
>> Assistant Director/Communications and External Affairs
>> Communications Authority of Kenya
>> PO Box 14448
>> Nairobi 00800
>>
>> Tel:  +254 703042000
>> Email:  alwala at ca.go.ke
>>
>>
>> From: kictanet <kictanet-bounces+alwala=ca.go.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>>on
>> behalf of KICTAnet Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> Reply-To: KICTAnet Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> Date: Monday, February 26, 2018 at 3:09 PM
>> To: Rachel <alwala at ca.go.ke>
>> Cc: Rachel <alwala at ca.go.ke>
>>
>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] CA¹s Sh85m plan to link remote areas with mobile
>> voice
>>
>> Dear listers,
>>
>> I hear the conversation going on with respect to the subject matter.
>>There
>> are many developments and very shortly, before COB , I will be posting
>>the
>> implementation status for your information and understanding.  Sometimes
>> when we share information, it is picked in piecemeal and potentially
>> distorted. That seems to have been the case in this particular respect.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rachel
>>
>> From: kictanet <kictanet-bounces+alwala=ca.go.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>>on
>> behalf of KICTAnet Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> Reply-To: KICTAnet Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> Date: Monday, February 26, 2018 at 2:53 PM
>> To: Rachel <alwala at ca.go.ke>
>> Cc: Adam Lane <adam.lane at huawei.com>
>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] CA’s Sh85m plan to link remote areas with mobile
>> voice
>>
>> Yes, certainly annual progress reports would be helpful
>> From:Barrack Otieno
>> To:KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>> Cc:Adam Lane
>> Date:2018-02-26 14:46:38
>> Subject:Re: [kictanet] CA’s Sh85m plan to link remote areas with mobile
>> voice
>>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> In light of the intense criticism the USF board has received, it needs
>> to come out strongly and clarify what it has achieved unless it is not
>> independent as we are made to beleive.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> On 2/26/18, Adam Lane via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>>wrote:
>>> I believe the fund already connected about 70 rural sites (as well as
>>> several hundred schools) last year so has begun to make progress.
>>> From:Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet
>>> To:Adam Lane
>>> Cc:Mwendwa Kivuva
>>> Date:2018-02-26 14:36:09
>>> Subject:Re: [kictanet] CA’s Sh85m plan to link remote areas with mobile
>>> voice
>>>
>>> Ksh85m is too little too late from a fund that has collected billions.
>>> Running a single BTS is resourse intensive. It requires physical
>>> security, generators, power lines, road access, human resource ... and
>>> much more.
>>>
>>> Spending the USF on benchmarking trips and allowances seems the modus
>>> operandi of this board. For the upteenth time, I also join Ali's call
>>> for the board to be disbanded immediately.
>>> ______________________
>>> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>>> twitter.com/lordmwesh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26 February 2018 at 08:09, Ali Hussein via kictanet
>>> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>> Victor
>>>>
>>>> As they say in accounting terms - That’s not even a rounding error in
>>>>the
>>>> scheme of things.
>>>>
>>>> CA needs to be more creative than this. Here’s a thought:-
>>>>
>>>> Disband the moribund USF Board and get people who are independent,
>>>> forward
>>>> thinking and unafraid to do the right thing.
>>>>
>>>> Let’s stop pussyfooting around such a big issue when a large swath of
>>>> this
>>>> country is being disenfranchised by lack of connectivity while we
>>>> continue
>>>> to pat ourselves in the back as the ‘Silicon Savannah’.
>>>>
>>>> Ali Hussein
>>>> Principal
>>>> Hussein & Associates
>>>> +254 0713 601113
>>>>
>>>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>>>
>>>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>>>
>>>> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act
>>>>but a
>>>> habit."  ~ Aristotle
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>
>>>> On 26 Feb 2018, at 7:36 AM, Victor Kapiyo via kictanet
>>>> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) will spend millions to
>>>>build
>>>> infrastructure to connect remote villages without mobile voice
>>>>coverage
>>>> following an order by President Uhuru Kenyatta to surrender unspent
>>>> billions
>>>> to the police.
>>>>
>>>> Mr Kenyatta said the authority had nothing to show for the billions of
>>>> shillings it has collected for a fund established to support
>>>> infrastructure
>>>> in remote areas dubbed the Universal Service Fund (USF).
>>>>
>>>> Now, CA has announced plans to spend Sh85 million in connecting 23,000
>>>> residents in six sub-locations in Baringo County to mobile voice
>>>> coverage.
>>>>
>>>> 85m only.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/CA-s-Sh85m-plan-to-link-rem
>>>>ote-areas-with-mobile-voice/3946234-4319204-gbsfna/index.html
>>>>
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