Very welcome...LTE or call it 4G will be very good for the last mile, we need it here! We are speaking about insanely fast speeds … potential as high as 150Mbps download and upload speeds as high as 50Mbps … about 100x more bandwidth (much faster) than most 3G networks. Safaricom should go ahead and test!<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Michael Joseph <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:MJoseph@safaricom.co.ke">MJoseph@safaricom.co.ke</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">












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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">At extreme risk of responding via this
list, I ask why should we not be testing new technology which might benefit
both the Kenyan public and the industry? It did not say we are launching it
commercially but merely hoping to do a technical trial.</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Certainly 3G is more than producing the
results – that is why all of a sudden the other operators want to climb
on board when 2 years ago they said it was not commercially viable.</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">
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4:20 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Michael Joseph<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> <a href="mailto:ke-internetusers@bdix.net" target="_blank">ke-internetusers@bdix.net</a>;
KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [kictanet] Kenya&#39;s
Safaricom says to test 4G later in 2010</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Has
Safaricom fully achieved the benefits of 3G to start testing 4G? </span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Kenyas%20Safaricom%20says%20to%20test%204G%20later%20in%202010/-/1006/890190/-/j9u85pz/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Kenyas%20Safaricom%20says%20to%20test%204G%20later%20in%202010/-/1006/890190/-/j9u85pz/-/index.html</a>
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