<div dir="ltr">Hello Ali,<div><br></div><div>I had written about this in an earlier LinkedIn Post I did earlier last year: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/telecommunication-revolution-here-ahmed-mohamed-maawy">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/telecommunication-revolution-here-ahmed-mohamed-maawy</a> (Titled the Telecommunication Revolution is here)</div><div><br></div><div>It just beats logic why we push to 4G.. 5G. The infrastructure needed to roll that out on mobile devices as well as service providers alone is extremely costly. The way things go, I think Telcos are bound to be brought back to earth if they don't switch to being corporate "Internet Service Providers" - Literally speaking.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Listers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Interesting article.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><p class="m_-8396515747788275449gmail-article-description" style="box-sizing:inherit;clear:none;line-height:1.67em;margin-top:0px;letter-spacing:-0.02em;margin-bottom:45px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">While mobile operators struggle to tap into adjacent pools of value, they could be overlooking real threats to their core business.  </font><span style="letter-spacing:-0.02em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;box-sizing:inherit">Consumers on the go</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.02em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif"> may soon no longer need mobile operators to stay connected with the wider world. Wi-Fi networks, frequently offered free, are becoming much more commonplace, and emerging low-power and satellite systems could provide other ways for users to bypass traditional mobile networks entirely.</span></p><p class="m_-8396515747788275449gmail-article-description" style="box-sizing:inherit;clear:none;line-height:1.67em;margin-top:0px;letter-spacing:-0.02em;margin-bottom:45px"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.02em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif">Read on </span></p><p class="m_-8396515747788275449gmail-article-description" style="box-sizing:inherit;clear:none;line-height:1.67em;margin-top:0px;letter-spacing:-0.02em;margin-bottom:45px"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.02em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/telecommunications/our-insights/regaining-mobiles-grip-on-network-connectivity?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck-oth-1708&hlkid=5e54c701c75e41309789448621848e8c&hctky=1578625&hdpid=bc8b0b0c-ddb7-4324-9f97-adc7f02c45f6" target="_blank">Regaining Mobile's grip on network connectivity</a></span></p></div><div><div class="m_-8396515747788275449gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Hussein & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>T<font size="2">el: +254 713 60<font size="2">1113</font></font><br></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">

</span></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/<wbr>alihkassim</a></span><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">Chiromo Road, Westlands,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">Nairobi, Kenya.</span></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span><br><font size="1">Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with.</font></span></span></font><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif;font-size:11pt"></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span>

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