<p>300,000 connections at the time the copper was taken over 5 yrs ago is not something to sneer at. Besdies that, remember that all the current fhigh speed broadband services, Zuku, Faiba etc are using copper for the "last mile"<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 10, 2013 8:09 AM, "Mark Mwangi" <<a href="mailto:mwangy@gmail.com">mwangy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">From What I gather the copper network of Telecom was not that extensive to begin with. Granted there was no other player with such an extended network but is it worthwhile to keep talking about copper whilst it is limited in how much bandwith it can offer? Why not future proof?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blongwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">blongwe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:left;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">Ethiopia and Tunisia deliver high speed data over wireline while here in Kenya we have allowed France Telecom who have management of Telkom Kenya to basically neglect and "throw away" our copper plant - and yet it could be the basis for providing affordable high speed access to hundreds of thousands. The new government *must* review this counterproductive "strategic investment" from France. Preferably show them the door and let us rebuild our national carrier. Full story here </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fictafrica.info%2FFullNews.php%3Fid%3D8231&h=6AQG9pG3RAQFMErU7Uu3mvEUPpn6e6H9D64HDcC36A89x5Q&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;color:rgb(59,89,152);text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank"><span>http://ictafrica.info/</span><span style="display:inline-block"></span>FullNews.php?id=8231</a><br>
<br></div>Best regards,<br><br>Brian<br></div>
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