Thank you for sharing this!! "Once ready to be fully deployed, AirGig could make it cheaper and easier to bring broadband connectivity to more remote areas that already have electricity wires. The technique could also be used as part of AT&T's efforts to improve coverage in its existing 4G network or upcoming 5G network." They are speaking 5G when 4G is such a hype here and even lower here in mashinani! Over to Internet mashinani... Regards/Wangari --- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth". On Thursday, 12 January 2017, 8:00, Tony White <tony.mzungu@gmail.com> wrote: +1 Wangari! Technically, the 'last mile' does pose some challenges - Broadband over Power Line (BPL) has a lot of issues [1], but AT&T claim to have a new system [2] in development which may provide a solution. Otherwise, FTTH is always a possibility, but would be, I think, the more expensive option. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_over_power_lines [2] http://fortune.com/2016/09/20/att-internet-over-powerlines/ Cheers, Tony On 12/01/2017, WANGARI KABIRU via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Blessed Wednesday! This may inspire halleluya moments as it may lead to bodies such as "Kenya Rural Internet Board" and " Internet Mashinani" to diffuse the net into the rural and slum areas with public accountability in quality, fair price, accessibility and governance. With major government services now delivered via digitised mode, access to the internet and related ICTs should be made available freely or on subsidy as other public services such as education and healthcare. The internet to the rural areas and slums beyond the big city hype requires patient capital. Capital more patient than reliance on private enterprise whose investors have their rightful commercial interests. Sole reliance propagates the digital divide which may also be mitigated by the civil society investment into community networks. Be blessed. Regards/Wangari--- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth".
On Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 16:24, Peter Mwanyika via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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Sent from my iPad On 11 Jan 2017, at 11:18 AM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: It looks like the taxpayer is building a parallel National Grid Fibre as is on the MoU "memorandum of understanding between the Chinese company ZTE and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum which the parties have signed to finance and build a national grid fibre" It's only important the several government agencies inform the public how this new fibre is complementing NOFBI, how NOFBI has run out of capacity, shortcomings of NOFBI, etc. Are the different government agencies working together, or are they in competition? The more cables we have, the more capacity we have, but the pain is, the end user will still have to pay the capital expense in deploying them. Answers from ICT Authority would assure the community. ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh
On 11 January 2017 at 11:24, Timothy- Coach- Oriedo via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: From a product perspective, this project appears to be motivated by a vertical integration move by Kenya Power. Backward to be able to better utilise the power grid infrastructure vide riding the fibre on the existing power grid, Forward to be able to bundle solutions (power & data) to the already existing customers. Due to the economies of scale and already existing infrastructure (distribution, subscription, customer service) this is a welcome move which if well managed will lead to reduced product costs(both power & data), higher penetration and efficiencies through reduced redundancies and customer service. For this benefits to be achieved, the process needs to be creatively implemented devoid of regulatory and political interference. Cheers Tim
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On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Tony White via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: AFAIK, Kenya Power already has fibre backbone, used for their own network for management and control - and extra capacity (dark fibres) are already leased to other service providers.
I think this project is much more than this - ie. FTTH. I certainly hope so. Whether the end-user is charged directly by Kenya Power (who would then become an ISP!) or some third party, sijui.
Cheers, Tony
On 11/01/2017, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Hi Ali,
I read in the news some times back that this was a new business line of Kenya Power to take advantage of the grid to provide a fibre backbone. It appears the extra space on the link will be sold to TELCO's and Bandwidth Service Providers. Looking at the way the undersea cables were deployed, my opinion is the more the merrier, it will create competition whose end result will be affordability due to price differentiation.
My thoughts
Regards
On 1/11/17, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers
My attention has been drawn to this article in today's nation. I will not dwell on the financial side of this story at the risk of boring people on this list. My attention was rather drawn to a part of the story which has interesting implications on the National Broadband Strategy which was launched a few years ago with much fanfare during Hon. Matiangi's tenure.
To quote the article:-
*The question is pertinent because I just recently came across a copy of a memorandum of understanding between the Chinese company ZTE and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum which the parties have signed to finance and build a national grid fibre access on Kenya Power’s transmission and distribution network.*
Kenya Power's fibre ambitions <http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenya-Power-s-huge-appetite-for-debt-is-a-recipe-for-disaster/440808-3512708-format-xhtml-8c48rrz/index.html>
I'm curious.
1. Does this new network compliment the NOFBI? 2. What is the business plan for this new network? 3. Does anyone have any details on this project? 4. Is the MOICT coordinating this with the Energy Ministry?
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