Talk-2-Safaricom, Day 4 of 6 (Thursday):-Infrastructure & Universal Access
Thanx all for your valuable comments yesterday on Innovations. We now kick-off Day 4 theme on Infrastructure and Universal access. Feel free to squeeze in belated questions on previous themes - as long as you keep the relevant subject line. Safaricom has continued to expand itsnetwork beyond urban areas. But what has been your experience of Safaricomservices in semi-urban and rural areas of Kenya? a) Rural area:-Voice quality, InternetAccess(bandwidth), Mobile Money (MPESA) b) Safaricom contributes to the UniversalService Fund to extend communications to underserved areas- how has thisimpacted your rural communities c) The government has the National Optical Fiber Infrastructure, to what extend does Safcom use/not use it and why?d) To provide services to under-served areas, the Universal Service Fund has been provision with Safaricom being the largest contributor, how effective is this fund? It's a mix of questions and experiences. Floor is open till midnite today on this one. Lets hear you views. walu.
Hi Walu, 1. What is Safaricoms policy on Infrastructure sharing?, my question regards Community ISP's that may want to piggy back on its masts. What are the charges and guidelines? Regards On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Walubengo J via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Thanx all for your valuable comments yesterday on Innovations. We now kick-off Day 4 theme on Infrastructure and Universal access. Feel free to squeeze in belated questions on previous themes - as long as you keep the relevant subject line.
Safaricom has continued to expand its network beyond urban areas. But what has been your experience of Safaricom services in semi-urban and rural areas of Kenya?
a) Rural area:-Voice quality, Internet Access(bandwidth), Mobile Money (MPESA) b) Safaricom contributes to the Universal Service Fund to extend communications to underserved areas- how has this impacted your rural communities c) The government has the National Optical Fiber Infrastructure, to what extend does Safcom use/not use it and why? d) To provide services to under-served areas, the Universal Service Fund has been provision with Safaricom being the largest contributor, how effective is this fund?
It's a mix of questions and experiences. Floor is open till midnite today on this one. Lets hear you views.
walu.
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Thanks to all those who spared time to ask questions and contribute in today's them. We have less than 5 hours to go and look forward to final last comments on this theme before close of night. Tomorrow, is Day5, where we shall talk Technology & Elections. Stay tuned. walu. From: Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Cc: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 8:29 AM Subject: Talk-2-Safaricom, Day 4 of 6 (Thursday):-Infrastructure & Universal Access Thanx all for your valuable comments yesterday on Innovations. We now kick-off Day 4 theme on Infrastructure and Universal access. Feel free to squeeze in belated questions on previous themes - as long as you keep the relevant subject line. Safaricom has continued to expand itsnetwork beyond urban areas. But what has been your experience of Safaricomservices in semi-urban and rural areas of Kenya? a) Rural area:-Voice quality, InternetAccess(bandwidth), Mobile Money (MPESA)b) Safaricom contributes to the UniversalService Fund to extend communications to underserved areas- how has thisimpacted your rural communities c) The government has the National Optical Fiber Infrastructure, to what extend does Safcom use/not use it and why?d) To provide services to under-served areas, the Universal Service Fund has been provision with Safaricom being the largest contributor, how effective is this fund? It's a mix of questions and experiences. Floor is open till midnite today on this one. Lets hear you views. walu.
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