On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:21 PM, <
baraza@africaonline.co.ke> wrote:
> Additionally, WiMAX will not last for long - very few major vendors are
> investing in continuous R & D in Wimax.Mobile Wimax is still a mirage.It's
> not good for spectrum efficiency, and re-use. A good number of speculative
> companies acquired small chunks of spectrum from CCK and rarely used them.
> Hence Safaricom trying to consolidate this Spectrum.
>
> LTE is the future and it's here. There have been successful trials in
> Nigeria and South Africa on the continent earlier in the year, achieving
> upto 70 Mbps on the DL.Initially designed for 2.6 GHz but ITU encouraging
> regulators to free up 600 - 700 MHz for better coverage. Current dongles
> are not multiband but next commercial releases will be able to support
> GSM/3G as well, hence having a seamless integration with older
> technologies for handling inter technology handovers, as these can be
> implemented on same BTS sites as GSM/3G. With the LTE access bandwidth
> operators will be able to do quadraple play with providing savings on
> spectrum but with similar QoS.
>
> Obviously Safaricom needs to increase wallet share as voice ARPUs decline
> steadily. With their P&L it's not difficult to see why they are pioneering
> LTE in Kenya.
>
> rgds,
> William Baraza
>
>> My pedestrian view is that this is as follows,
>> We all know that data penetration in this country is not even at 20% and
>> yet voice is actually among the highest in Africa. Like wars are won in
>> the air, on the ground and in the sea, so shall it be with data
>> business. They are definitely looking at high speed mobility via LTE,
>> reliable high capacity links via fiber and of-course the quick to
>> execute reasonable broadband d connectivity via WiMax. We all know that
>> WiMax spectrum is never enough that is why there is the element of use
>> and re-use of spectrum on a base station. Still this is not enough
>> because most of the spectrum owners have just about 7Ghz of capacity.
>> This will never be enough especially in high density areas such as
>> cities which have radios all over the joint. It is for this reason that
>> any service provider looking at growing the cake would want to lay their
>> hands on any available capacity even if it is for the sake of mitigating
>> against interference within the network. Besides, it would make more
>> sense to put a wireless base station in a small city than lay fiber to
>> serve just 200 customers (the figure here hypothetical). Remember, when
>> the ARPU's on voice begin shrinking, growth has to come from somewhere.
>>
>> BR,
>> Shim...
>>
>> On 9/1/2010 11:12 AM, David Kiania | Asentric Consulting Ltd wrote:
>>> Could someone who understands Safcom's data strategy explain it to me
>>> in English. According to press reports they have began technical
>>> trials on 4G (LTE - Long Term Evolution) with Huawei. At the same time
>>> they have been on an acquisition spree swallowing each and every WIMAX
>>> operator in the country.
>>>
>>> Already they are the largest ISP and Data company in Kenya, LTE will
>>> allow them to do faster data speeds and wide coverage. So why in the
>>> world to they have to acquire Instaconnet and the rest? Are they
>>> buying customers? They don't need to given they are the largest brand
>>> already.
>>>
>>> SOS (Saidiaa OOOh Saidia).
>>>
>>>
>>> Kiania D.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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