Hi all,<br><br>Please take note that this saga is playing out in the USA with traditional telcos fighting to protect their turf while former content companies threaten survival of the telcos.<br><br><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/tech-telecom-giants-take-sides-as-fcc-proposes-large-public-wifi-networks/2013/02/03/eb27d3e0-698b-11e2-ada3-d86a4806d5ee_story.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/tech-telecom-giants-take-sides-as-fcc-proposes-large-public-wifi-networks/2013/02/03/eb27d3e0-698b-11e2-ada3-d86a4806d5ee_story.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Excerpt:</div><div>"<span style="line-height:1.5em;font-family:Georgia,serif">The
federal government wants to create super WiFi networks across the
nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to
make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every
month.</span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:1.5em;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:1.5em;font-family:Georgia,serif">The
proposal from the Federal Communications Commission has rattled the
$178 billion wireless industry, which has launched a fierce lobbying
effort to persuade policymakers to reconsider the idea, analysts say.
That has been countered by an equally intense campaign from</span><span style="line-height:1.5em;font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span><a href="http://washpost.bloomberg.com/marketnews/stockdetail/?symbol=GOOG" style="line-height:1.5em;font-family:Georgia,serif" target="_blank">Google</a><span style="line-height:1.5em;font-family:Georgia,serif">,</span><a href="http://washpost.bloomberg.com/marketnews/stockdetail/?symbol=MSFT" style="line-height:1.5em;font-family:Georgia,serif" target="_blank">Microsoft</a><span style="line-height:1.5em;font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span><span style="line-height:1.5em;font-family:Georgia,serif">and
other tech giants who say a free-for-all WiFi service would spark an
explosion of innovations and devices that would benefit most Americans,
especially the poor.</span>"</div>
<div><br></div><br><div><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Daniel Obam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel_obam@yahoo.com" target="_blank">daniel_obam@yahoo.com</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;font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif"><div><span>Ng'ethe,</span></div>
<div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif"><span>In other jurisdictions where this is being trialled, a white space device will not be authourised to start transmitting until getting clearance from an online database qualified by Sector Regulator. This database is expected to provide updated information on where the white spaces are and the power level that devices would need to be restricted to if they wanted to use them(i.e. white spaces).</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif"><span>It would be interesting to know if such a database has been established in Kenya to help mitigate against interference with other existing and planned services should the pilot ever qualify to be upgraded to commercial use.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif"><span>Also recall that the "white spaces" were meant to refer to the guard bands between TV channels in the TV broadcasting bands; therefore the migration from analogue to digital TV broadcasting and the allocation and use of the "Digital Dividend ( 1st and 2nd dividend)" will impact on how this white space experiment eventually pans out.</span></div>
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Times New Roman">Daniel Obam<br>Communications Radio Technology Expert<br>National Communications Secretariat<br>9th Floor TRANSCOM House, Ngong Rd<br>P.O. Box 10756- 00100 GPO<br>
NAIROBI, KENYA<br>Tel. +254202719953, Fax +254202716515<br>Mobile: +254722519889</font><br></font><br></div>
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</div><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">From:</span></b> "<a href="mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:daniel_obam@yahoo.com" target="_blank">daniel_obam@yahoo.com</a> <br><div class="im"><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> <br>
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<div class="im"><br>Mark,listers<br>It is a pilot project using new technology and in my view the regulator
would take an interest and determine if there is need for any regulatory intervention.<br><br>John Kariuki.<br>Sent from my BlackBerry®<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Mark Mwangi <<a href="mailto:mwangy@gmail.com" target="_blank">mwangy@gmail.com</a>><br>
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