On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Muchiri Nyaggah <muchiri@semacraft.com> wrote:

The last mile maybe solved for us if CCK follows fast after the US FCC's heels to license super wi-fi. The equipment for it should be in the market within a year or so perhaps.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/09/14/fcc.super.wifi/

yes, well those frequencies are already allocated in KE for UHF analogue television broadcasting the last time I looked at: http://www.cck.go.ke/licensing/downloads/Kenya_TOFA_2008_Edition.pdf

Not that it couldn't be changed to free up some frequencies in the 470 – 806 MHz neighborhood, but this "super-wifi" has the potential to be extremely disruptive (in a good way for consumers), and I'm not sure African regulators are willing to upset the current apple cart.

This thread is supposed to be about LION cable, which already seems to be connected to Africa at Mtunzini (I may be wrong), but it would seem that it would be trivial to interconnect SEACOM and EASSy there. I guess the Mombasa link is for redundancy?? (Or maybe FT just has a cable laying ship with nothing to do?)

http://lion.orange.com/default/EN/all/lion_en/index.htm is the PR website.