@munguti it has been for a year now. instead of vague promises of coming soon or coming next quarter , they should just say will come when it comes. Am not holding my breath. Long before Safaricom launched theirs the signal was being picked by most 3g enabled handsets though it was not usable.
Meaning?
If you have info, please share.
Regard's
Brian Ngure
On 1 Jun 2011 13:22, "Stephen Munguti" <kamitu.sm@gmail.com> wrote:
> The airtel 3G is comming sooner than you think
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:51 AM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> the article :
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/03/faster-mobile-broadband-driven-by-congestion-not-speed.ars
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:50 AM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> @aki & @rita
>>>
>>> While i still hope yours are not veiled attacks at an incumbent about to
>>> swallow yet more market share, allow me to share this easily available
>>> article about the evolution of Gees.... (2G, 2.5G... on to 4G) and why 4G is
>>> not necessarily just about speed...
>>>
>>> But that said, in a price sensitive market, competition will most likely
>>> be first about how much bandwidth you are offering for how much, then how
>>> good your customer care is. That said, imagine a marketplace where you have
>>> the flexibility to offer hundreds of Mbps to cellular clients and up to
>>> 1Gbps to fixed ones where your competition can offer at the most something
>>> like 7.2Mbps.......
>>>
>>> I suspect safaricom is not just testing but is busy deploying, because
>>> when push comes to shove, they will unleash internet fury like no provider
>>> has seen, and with the failure of MNP to tame them, some providers better be
>>> prepared...
>>>
>>> That said, if i were the rest, i would consolidate my gains, partner with
>>> each other and form a company to manage their masts and backhaul (jointly
>>> owned) , leverage on the nationwide fiber that the french company ILLEGALLY
>>> control and throw out a product that can withstand an onslaught of 4G at a
>>> price that wont keep anyone in the current network looking the safaricom
>>> way....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:21 AM, <rgitobu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> @Mark that is not what we are saying. My issue is they are offering
>>>> Kenyans a raw deal by selling data only. They is so much 3G can do that they
>>>> have not sold to Kenyans.
>>>> Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone provided by Airtel Kenya
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