@aki &amp; @rita<div><br></div><div>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... </div>
<div><br></div><div>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....... </div>
<div><br></div><div>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... </div>
<div><br></div><div>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....</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:21 AM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rgitobu@gmail.com">rgitobu@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
@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.<br>
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