<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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Prime time is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daypart" title="Daypart" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">daypart</a> (block of a day's programming schedule) with the most viewers and is generally where <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_networks" title="Television networks" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">television networks</a> and local stations reap much of their advertising revenues. - Wikipedia </span></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; ">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-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">This requires </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">seamless provision of</font><font class="Apple-style-span" 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 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" size="3"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" 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 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">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 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">I hope I have been
able to justify my use of the term primetime.</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">Regards<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> </font></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 9:49:32<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 8:32 AM, 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;">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;"><div></div><div>As the price war on voice escalates and the margins drop exponentially as the mobile providers move to take positions in the data realm, are Safaricom and the other mobile providers ready for prime time data services?</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>What are "prime time data services"?<br clear="all"></div></div><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254733744121/+254722743223<br>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ <br>
Damn!!<br><br>
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