<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 Edith,</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; ">The Jamii FTTH project is yet to be rolled out but on the same vein we need to appreciate that FTTH is no longer the model of choice for delivery of connectivity to the home due to the high cost of the termination equipment and the process of repairing damaged fibre.</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; ">It costs about 25,000/- to terminate a pair of fibre and since your equipment in the home will most likely not have a fibre port you will require to convert the light pulses to electrical signals that can be delivered to your computers or set top boxes ethernet card. The cheap fibre to Ethernet transceivers cost on average 15,000/-. </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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Fibres high bandwidth capabilities and long runs are ideal
for </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">back-haul</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> and trunk applications, the last mile is still best served over copper due to the ease of installation and maintenance. The bandwidth capabilities of fibre optic cable will be underutilised in the home, DSL still remains the ideal last mile solution even where triple play is to be delivered. </font></span></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: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></span></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: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">As we develop more gated communities the safety of copper will be increased therefore reducing the efforts of the providers to getting the fibre to the gate. Also note that with fibre trying to implement voice services such as intercom within a development will proof very expensive is you will need to used SIP phones. With DSL the same cable delivering data will be able to also delivery voice cost effectively.</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><br></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; ">AccessKenya and the elk have been having an uphill task selling WiMax equipment for 45,000/- and finally opted to supply the equipment for free. In Runda where fibre has been widely buried the level of uptake is still very low mainly due to the installation cost and resistance from home owners to have their gardens dug up to lay the cable.</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; ">As has been realised in the data centre copper still offers a better solution to high-speed connectivity which explains why many switch manufacturers have opted to slow development of higher speeds on their fibre switches and
instead are concentrating on increasing performance over copper.</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"> </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> Edith Adera <eadera@idrc.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 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> Mon, 21 March, 2011 15:03:30<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [kictanet] Refreshing - Fibre to Homes<br></font><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2">Listers,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">It was refershing to watch "Who Owns Kenya" on Citizen TV on Sunday and learn that Jamii Telecom is rolling out fibre to the home as a major project.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Does anyone know if these services are already being provided by Jamii or is this just a plan?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Edith</font></div>
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