<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Hi,</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">I question is addressed to list members who have had the opportunity to interact with the various mobile providers data services and what they feel is the situation in relation to the services and products available.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">It might also be a question to them to seriously consider if they are ready to take on the </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">incumbents in the critical services domain as there model until now as been based on a democracy type system one to one relationship. We are talking of going beyond the dongle on a students laptop doing research and socialising to a centralised banking system being accessed remotely.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">The realm they are entering is where a single link will serve multiple users such as with a inter branch connection where downtime and unreliable service affect many
users.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">It is now clear why Orange are busy dusting their line plant (cable in the ground) as they await to compete in a domain they know very well.</font></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Regards</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br> </div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Robert Yawe</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">KAY System Technologies Ltd</font><br><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Phoenix House, 6th Floor</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Kenya</font><br><br><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, 1 February, 2011 13:54:57<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Prime Time data; is safaricom ready?<br></font><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:39 PM, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div style="color:black;font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;">Prime time is the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daypart" title="Daypart" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(6, 69, 173);background-color:initial;">daypart</a> (block of a day's programming schedule) with the most viewers and is generally where <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_networks" title="Television networks" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(6, 69, 173);background-color:initial;">television networks</a> and local stations reap much of their advertising revenues. - Wikipedia </span></div>
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With relation to data services Prime Time are services that are mission critical and that need to be up 90% or more as outages within that windows could be disastrous to a business. An analogy could be loss of power during the world cup
finals. </div><div style="color:black;font-size:12pt;"><br></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">This requires </font><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">seamless provision of</font><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> inter-branch connectivity, remote users, mobile users, B2B, B2C, redundancy, SLAs and security all in a single package.</font></div>
<div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"></font><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Providing reliable and flexible solutions to meet the clients needs, the mobile
providers are moving into fixed wireless and wired services which require site visits and high level of client interaction as opposed to the mobile services they are used to where you can get away with phone and "carry in" support.</font></div>
<div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Transitioning from wireless to fixed services is more difficult than the reverse, many of you will soon understand why it too KPTC aka Telkom aka Orange days if not weeks to resolve a faulty landline we are about to go full circle as the messiah mobile provides delve into the world of fixed.</font></div>
<div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">I hope I have been
able to justify my use of the term primetime.<br><br></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>So, your question was directed at Safaricom/Airtel/Orange/Yu, as opposed to list members!<br>No wonder I failed to understand the direction of the question.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254733744121/+254722743223<br>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ <br>Damn!!<br><br>
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