Re: [Skunkworks] BD : Telkom to start 3G trials this week?: Give me a reason to give up this...
It may be Wifi / Wimax, it may even be erratic at times. But when its there, its better than a LAN of yesteryears. (actually about ten years ago i think lan was 10Mbps) On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com>wrote:
Whether they try 3G, 4G, 10G, 100G etc or not, they may not be of much value to us... it emerges that Orange quietly scrapped so-called 'friends and family' "1/= Forever" tariff six months ago. :(:(:(
... in case you see and been assuming their such advertisements are honest ... --- "Telkom Kenya wishes to clarify that the Sh1-a-minute rate Christopher Black was enjoying was an introductory tariff, which was discontinued mid this year. Angela Ng’ang’a-Mumo, the head of corporate communications, says: “In its place, we introduced the new Niaje tariff, which enables subscribers to pay Sh4 a minute (billed per second) within the Orange network. Since June 23, we’ve not advertised the Orange Friends and Family tariff plan but have promoted both the Niaje tariff and the Sh1 Internet bundle offer.” --- <http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting%20Edge/-/440802/818358/-/2cahvoz/-/>
Raising the question Why advertise such tariffs so loudly yet scrap them without notifying the public?
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:28 AM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
It already has 3g+ ( evdo ) and now to 3g for gsm platforms! :-) If anyone has details of the tests, please update us.
Cheers.
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On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:43 PM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
It may be Wifi / Wimax, it may even be erratic at times. But when its there, its better than a LAN of yesteryears. (actually about ten years ago i think lan was 10Mbps)
You have absolutely no reason to give it up! lol! :-)) And you can wipe that smile off, 3g kitu gani ehh?
yes @ aki. Looks like at this rate, the limiting factor is going to be device limitations. Imagine these speeds are on fiber in msa and wifi all the way to malindi (theyve not terminated in malindi yet). what then when they do that at the AP across the road? On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:43 PM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
It may be Wifi / Wimax, it may even be erratic at times. But when its there, its better than a LAN of yesteryears. (actually about ten years ago i think lan was 10Mbps)
You have absolutely no reason to give it up! lol! :-)) And you can wipe that smile off, 3g kitu gani ehh?
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On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:27 AM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
yes @ aki. Looks like at this rate, the limiting factor is going to be device limitations. Imagine these speeds are on fiber in msa and wifi all the way to malindi (theyve not terminated in malindi yet). what then when they do that at the AP across the road?
@Areba, I believe KDN's mistake was to go wifi, especially with fiber. They should have rolled out a last mile lower freq network that performs much better and would not need many wifi BS. Something similar to what AOL did, I think each BS gives a coverage of about 10Kms, NLOS. Wifi has many limitations and in Mombasa there is the constant issue of ships radar interfering with freqs. With clever positioning of BS, they can achieve coverage but wifi limitations for a bridged mode is 1-2kms max, I think. Corrections welcome.
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