Voice still accounts for 80% of an African operator's revenue, this is held true by Safaricom's annual report, out of a turnover of KES 80 Billion, 64 Billion came from voice. However the story in the media and what we seem to have caught on is that growth on voice was flat at 8%. There's a very small group in comparative terms that needs data services, so to answer your question, I think Airtel know that their success in Africa wont come from Value Added Services incl. 3G/4G, but from basic quality voice, in 15 countries. Seek ye first growth in voice, and all the other things .... David On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:45 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Been reading some article.......They need to know we are in the data age and not the traditional voice era. And the data era we are in is not a few kilobits per second but broadband on mobile networks. Kencell, then Celtel then Zain gave empty promises on data services such as 3G. With Safaricom heading to 4G hopefully, is Airtel trying to re-invent the wheel on rural tele-density? Low cost high volume model is every telcos dream, will they be able to pull it off without any more investments in infrastructure? The official launch is in October this year...........
Since am in the Orange camp ( Orange TKL Kenya ) , I wonder when they go 3G?
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