Orange TKL - Request for assistance
Hello listers, Does someone here know someone who knows someone at Orange TKL who can help me out? I am waiting for connectivity to some remote place in the wilderness of Nanyuki for 1 month now. The cause? Access Kenya Projects Team is waiting for clearance from to access an Orange Kenya mast in Nanyuki - which is where my radios need to be mounted. My understanding is that Access Kenya is leasing mast space from Orange Kenya's facility in Nanyuki town. However, waiting for 1 month to get approval to access the mast doesn't sound quite right, but that is what I am told it is. Seriously, I believe the sharing of the mast is a commercial venture between the two providers. There must be a way to shorten the bureaucratic tape at Orange Kenya. I am waiting for service and I so hope someone knows someone, honestly. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
Hi Odhiambo, TKL is in the business of offering integrated ICT services in Kenya. Orange is a product, among many other productsTKL offers. The services you are looking for is provided to you by Access Kenya. Access Kenya therefore is your service provider; NOT Orange (a product of TKL) or Telkom Kenya Limited (the company). My advice to you: Don't allow excuses from your service provider (Access Kenya). You have contacted them to give you a service; and they are answerable to you for the services you are paying them to deliver. Looping TKL into the contract you have with Access Kenya does not make any sense at all. Let access Kenya deal directly with their service provider and if in case their contract terms are breached; they will know the next course of action to take. Regards Adar On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
Hello listers,
Does someone here know someone who knows someone at Orange TKL who can help me out?
I am waiting for connectivity to some remote place in the wilderness of Nanyuki for 1 month now. The cause? Access Kenya Projects Team is waiting for clearance from to access an Orange Kenya mast in Nanyuki - which is where my radios need to be mounted.
My understanding is that Access Kenya is leasing mast space from Orange Kenya's facility in Nanyuki town. However, waiting for 1 month to get approval to access the mast doesn't sound quite right, but that is what I am told it is.
Seriously, I believe the sharing of the mast is a commercial venture between the two providers. There must be a way to shorten the bureaucratic tape at Orange Kenya. I am waiting for service and I so hope someone knows someone, honestly.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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@Philip, You are very right, except for one thing - waiting for one month for a simple thing as "we're still waiting for TKL to give access to the mast" is bound to throw thousands of butterflies into one's stomach! Sadly, this is the reason I cannot get service. One is bound to start imagining sabotage. Orange is a product, did you say?? On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Philip Adar <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Odhiambo, TKL is in the business of offering integrated ICT services in Kenya. Orange is a product, among many other productsTKL offers.
The services you are looking for is provided to you by Access Kenya. Access Kenya therefore is your service provider; NOT Orange (a product of TKL) or Telkom Kenya Limited (the company).
My advice to you: Don't allow excuses from your service provider (Access Kenya). You have contacted them to give you a service; and they are answerable to you for the services you are paying them to deliver. Looping TKL into the contract you have with Access Kenya does not make any sense at all. Let access Kenya deal directly with their service provider and if in case their contract terms are breached; they will know the next course of action to take.
Regards Adar
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
Hello listers,
Does someone here know someone who knows someone at Orange TKL who can help me out?
I am waiting for connectivity to some remote place in the wilderness of Nanyuki for 1 month now. The cause? Access Kenya Projects Team is waiting for clearance from to access an Orange Kenya mast in Nanyuki - which is where my radios need to be mounted.
My understanding is that Access Kenya is leasing mast space from Orange Kenya's facility in Nanyuki town. However, waiting for 1 month to get approval to access the mast doesn't sound quite right, but that is what I am told it is.
Seriously, I believe the sharing of the mast is a commercial venture between the two providers. There must be a way to shorten the bureaucratic tape at Orange Kenya. I am waiting for service and I so hope someone knows someone, honestly.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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-- Regards
Philip Adar
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
@Philip, In a strange coincidence, and e-mail has just hit my box (accidentally, because either someone wrote the wrong address or Gmail decided I was the intended recipient) and I don't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or just laugh. The e-mail is from the IT Manager of the Kenyan High Commission in South Africa. Here is the interesting lines, and I quote: <quote> We are really struggling to get pricing for half circuit from Telcom (K) as they are the ones to do the Kenya circuit. Can you pull some strings to get us a contact person? </quote> <quote> Warm Greetings, In response to your earlier text as below, please send me your order forms for our perusal. Once again, let me know if you need a high level intervention to obtain the pricing from Nairobi. This is a vital project, and must proceed as scheduled from our end. Let the delay be from Nairobi not here. </quote> You can see what they are going through with TKL? It's therefore not strange that I have been waiting for over a month. Imagine if they cannot give the price of half-circuit to the govt! I can post the whole e-mail if anyone is curious. It tells a lot about the inefficiencies with TKL. On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
@Philip,
You are very right, except for one thing - waiting for one month for a simple thing as "we're still waiting for TKL to give access to the mast" is bound to throw thousands of butterflies into one's stomach!
Sadly, this is the reason I cannot get service. One is bound to start imagining sabotage.
Orange is a product, did you say??
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Philip Adar <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi Odhiambo, TKL is in the business of offering integrated ICT services in Kenya. Orange is a product, among many other productsTKL offers.
The services you are looking for is provided to you by Access Kenya. Access Kenya therefore is your service provider; NOT Orange (a product of TKL) or Telkom Kenya Limited (the company).
My advice to you: Don't allow excuses from your service provider (Access Kenya). You have contacted them to give you a service; and they are answerable to you for the services you are paying them to deliver. Looping TKL into the contract you have with Access Kenya does not make any sense at all. Let access Kenya deal directly with their service provider and if in case their contract terms are breached; they will know the next course of action to take.
Regards Adar
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]
wrote:
Hello listers,
Does someone here know someone who knows someone at Orange TKL who can help me out?
I am waiting for connectivity to some remote place in the wilderness of Nanyuki for 1 month now. The cause? Access Kenya Projects Team is waiting for clearance from to access an Orange Kenya mast in Nanyuki - which is where my radios need to be mounted.
My understanding is that Access Kenya is leasing mast space from Orange Kenya's facility in Nanyuki town. However, waiting for 1 month to get approval to access the mast doesn't sound quite right, but that is what I am told it is.
Seriously, I believe the sharing of the mast is a commercial venture between the two providers. There must be a way to shorten the bureaucratic tape at Orange Kenya. I am waiting for service and I so hope someone knows someone, honestly.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
-- Regards
Philip Adar
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
@wash post the whole Email we have a look at the context On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
@Philip,
In a strange coincidence, and e-mail has just hit my box (accidentally, because either someone wrote the wrong address or Gmail decided I was the intended recipient) and I don't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or just laugh. The e-mail is from the IT Manager of the Kenyan High Commission in South Africa.
Here is the interesting lines, and I quote:
<quote> We are really struggling to get pricing for half circuit from Telcom (K) as they are the ones to do the Kenya circuit. Can you pull some strings to get us a contact person? </quote>
<quote> Warm Greetings,
In response to your earlier text as below, please send me your order forms for our perusal. Once again, let me know if you need a high level intervention to obtain the pricing from Nairobi.
This is a vital project, and must proceed as scheduled from our end. Let the delay be from Nairobi not here.
</quote>
You can see what they are going through with TKL? It's therefore not strange that I have been waiting for over a month. Imagine if they cannot give the price of half-circuit to the govt!
I can post the whole e-mail if anyone is curious. It tells a lot about the inefficiencies with TKL.
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
@Philip,
You are very right, except for one thing - waiting for one month for a simple thing as "we're still waiting for TKL to give access to the mast" is bound to throw thousands of butterflies into one's stomach!
Sadly, this is the reason I cannot get service. One is bound to start imagining sabotage.
Orange is a product, did you say??
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Philip Adar <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi Odhiambo, TKL is in the business of offering integrated ICT services in Kenya. Orange is a product, among many other productsTKL offers.
The services you are looking for is provided to you by Access Kenya. Access Kenya therefore is your service provider; NOT Orange (a product of TKL) or Telkom Kenya Limited (the company).
My advice to you: Don't allow excuses from your service provider (Access Kenya). You have contacted them to give you a service; and they are answerable to you for the services you are paying them to deliver. Looping TKL into the contract you have with Access Kenya does not make any sense at all. Let access Kenya deal directly with their service provider and if in case their contract terms are breached; they will know the next course of action to take.
Regards Adar
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Odhiambo Washington < [email protected]> wrote:
Hello listers,
Does someone here know someone who knows someone at Orange TKL who can help me out?
I am waiting for connectivity to some remote place in the wilderness of Nanyuki for 1 month now. The cause? Access Kenya Projects Team is waiting for clearance from to access an Orange Kenya mast in Nanyuki - which is where my radios need to be mounted.
My understanding is that Access Kenya is leasing mast space from Orange Kenya's facility in Nanyuki town. However, waiting for 1 month to get approval to access the mast doesn't sound quite right, but that is what I am told it is.
Seriously, I believe the sharing of the mast is a commercial venture between the two providers. There must be a way to shorten the bureaucratic tape at Orange Kenya. I am waiting for service and I so hope someone knows someone, honestly.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
-- Regards
Philip Adar
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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Mark Careful you are not charged with 'intercepting' email... :) Ali Hussein +254 773/713 601113 Sent from my iPad On Sep 18, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Mark Mwangi <[email protected]> wrote:
@wash post the whole Email we have a look at the context
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]> wrote: @Philip,
In a strange coincidence, and e-mail has just hit my box (accidentally, because either someone wrote the wrong address or Gmail decided I was the intended recipient) and I don't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or just laugh. The e-mail is from the IT Manager of the Kenyan High Commission in South Africa.
Here is the interesting lines, and I quote:
<quote> We are really struggling to get pricing for half circuit from Telcom (K) as they are the ones to do the Kenya circuit. Can you pull some strings to get us a contact person? </quote>
<quote> Warm Greetings,
In response to your earlier text as below, please send me your order forms for our perusal. Once again, let me know if you need a high level intervention to obtain the pricing from Nairobi.
This is a vital project, and must proceed as scheduled from our end. Let the delay be from Nairobi not here.
</quote>
You can see what they are going through with TKL? It's therefore not strange that I have been waiting for over a month. Imagine if they cannot give the price of half-circuit to the govt!
I can post the whole e-mail if anyone is curious. It tells a lot about the inefficiencies with TKL.
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]> wrote: @Philip,
You are very right, except for one thing - waiting for one month for a simple thing as "we're still waiting for TKL to give access to the mast" is bound to throw thousands of butterflies into one's stomach!
Sadly, this is the reason I cannot get service. One is bound to start imagining sabotage.
Orange is a product, did you say??
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Philip Adar <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Odhiambo, TKL is in the business of offering integrated ICT services in Kenya. Orange is a product, among many other productsTKL offers.
The services you are looking for is provided to you by Access Kenya. Access Kenya therefore is your service provider; NOT Orange (a product of TKL) or Telkom Kenya Limited (the company).
My advice to you: Don't allow excuses from your service provider (Access Kenya). You have contacted them to give you a service; and they are answerable to you for the services you are paying them to deliver. Looping TKL into the contract you have with Access Kenya does not make any sense at all. Let access Kenya deal directly with their service provider and if in case their contract terms are breached; they will know the next course of action to take.
Regards Adar
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]> wrote: Hello listers,
Does someone here know someone who knows someone at Orange TKL who can help me out?
I am waiting for connectivity to some remote place in the wilderness of Nanyuki for 1 month now. The cause? Access Kenya Projects Team is waiting for clearance from to access an Orange Kenya mast in Nanyuki - which is where my radios need to be mounted.
My understanding is that Access Kenya is leasing mast space from Orange Kenya's facility in Nanyuki town. However, waiting for 1 month to get approval to access the mast doesn't sound quite right, but that is what I am told it is.
Seriously, I believe the sharing of the mast is a commercial venture between the two providers. There must be a way to shorten the bureaucratic tape at Orange Kenya. I am waiting for service and I so hope someone knows someone, honestly.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
-- Regards
Philip Adar
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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Google should be charged, actually. There are so many times I have received e-mails NOT addressed to me, but which match odhiambo*@gmail.com. It's not my fault:-) On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Ali Hussein <[email protected]> wrote:
Mark
Careful you are not charged with 'intercepting' email... :)
Ali Hussein
+254 773/713 601113
Sent from my iPad
On Sep 18, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Mark Mwangi <[email protected]> wrote:
@wash post the whole Email we have a look at the context
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
@Philip,
In a strange coincidence, and e-mail has just hit my box (accidentally, because either someone wrote the wrong address or Gmail decided I was the intended recipient) and I don't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or just laugh. The e-mail is from the IT Manager of the Kenyan High Commission in South Africa.
Here is the interesting lines, and I quote:
<quote> We are really struggling to get pricing for half circuit from Telcom (K) as they are the ones to do the Kenya circuit. Can you pull some strings to get us a contact person? </quote>
<quote> Warm Greetings,
In response to your earlier text as below, please send me your order forms for our perusal. Once again, let me know if you need a high level intervention to obtain the pricing from Nairobi.
This is a vital project, and must proceed as scheduled from our end. Let the delay be from Nairobi not here.
</quote>
You can see what they are going through with TKL? It's therefore not strange that I have been waiting for over a month. Imagine if they cannot give the price of half-circuit to the govt!
I can post the whole e-mail if anyone is curious. It tells a lot about the inefficiencies with TKL.
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
@Philip,
You are very right, except for one thing - waiting for one month for a simple thing as "we're still waiting for TKL to give access to the mast" is bound to throw thousands of butterflies into one's stomach!
Sadly, this is the reason I cannot get service. One is bound to start imagining sabotage.
Orange is a product, did you say??
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Philip Adar <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi Odhiambo, TKL is in the business of offering integrated ICT services in Kenya. Orange is a product, among many other productsTKL offers.
The services you are looking for is provided to you by Access Kenya. Access Kenya therefore is your service provider; NOT Orange (a product of TKL) or Telkom Kenya Limited (the company).
My advice to you: Don't allow excuses from your service provider (Access Kenya). You have contacted them to give you a service; and they are answerable to you for the services you are paying them to deliver. Looping TKL into the contract you have with Access Kenya does not make any sense at all. Let access Kenya deal directly with their service provider and if in case their contract terms are breached; they will know the next course of action to take.
Regards Adar
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Odhiambo Washington < [email protected]> wrote:
Hello listers,
Does someone here know someone who knows someone at Orange TKL who can help me out?
I am waiting for connectivity to some remote place in the wilderness of Nanyuki for 1 month now. The cause? Access Kenya Projects Team is waiting for clearance from to access an Orange Kenya mast in Nanyuki - which is where my radios need to be mounted.
My understanding is that Access Kenya is leasing mast space from Orange Kenya's facility in Nanyuki town. However, waiting for 1 month to get approval to access the mast doesn't sound quite right, but that is what I am told it is.
Seriously, I believe the sharing of the mast is a commercial venture between the two providers. There must be a way to shorten the bureaucratic tape at Orange Kenya. I am waiting for service and I so hope someone knows someone, honestly.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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-- Regards
Philip Adar
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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-- Regards,
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Hi Mark, I've forwarded to you offlist - for now. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Mark Mwangi <[email protected]> wrote:
@wash post the whole Email we have a look at the context
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
@Philip,
In a strange coincidence, and e-mail has just hit my box (accidentally, because either someone wrote the wrong address or Gmail decided I was the intended recipient) and I don't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or just laugh. The e-mail is from the IT Manager of the Kenyan High Commission in South Africa.
Here is the interesting lines, and I quote:
<quote> We are really struggling to get pricing for half circuit from Telcom (K) as they are the ones to do the Kenya circuit. Can you pull some strings to get us a contact person? </quote>
<quote> Warm Greetings,
In response to your earlier text as below, please send me your order forms for our perusal. Once again, let me know if you need a high level intervention to obtain the pricing from Nairobi.
This is a vital project, and must proceed as scheduled from our end. Let the delay be from Nairobi not here.
</quote>
You can see what they are going through with TKL? It's therefore not strange that I have been waiting for over a month. Imagine if they cannot give the price of half-circuit to the govt!
I can post the whole e-mail if anyone is curious. It tells a lot about the inefficiencies with TKL.
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
@Philip,
You are very right, except for one thing - waiting for one month for a simple thing as "we're still waiting for TKL to give access to the mast" is bound to throw thousands of butterflies into one's stomach!
Sadly, this is the reason I cannot get service. One is bound to start imagining sabotage.
Orange is a product, did you say??
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Philip Adar <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi Odhiambo, TKL is in the business of offering integrated ICT services in Kenya. Orange is a product, among many other productsTKL offers.
The services you are looking for is provided to you by Access Kenya. Access Kenya therefore is your service provider; NOT Orange (a product of TKL) or Telkom Kenya Limited (the company).
My advice to you: Don't allow excuses from your service provider (Access Kenya). You have contacted them to give you a service; and they are answerable to you for the services you are paying them to deliver. Looping TKL into the contract you have with Access Kenya does not make any sense at all. Let access Kenya deal directly with their service provider and if in case their contract terms are breached; they will know the next course of action to take.
Regards Adar
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Odhiambo Washington < [email protected]> wrote:
Hello listers,
Does someone here know someone who knows someone at Orange TKL who can help me out?
I am waiting for connectivity to some remote place in the wilderness of Nanyuki for 1 month now. The cause? Access Kenya Projects Team is waiting for clearance from to access an Orange Kenya mast in Nanyuki - which is where my radios need to be mounted.
My understanding is that Access Kenya is leasing mast space from Orange Kenya's facility in Nanyuki town. However, waiting for 1 month to get approval to access the mast doesn't sound quite right, but that is what I am told it is.
Seriously, I believe the sharing of the mast is a commercial venture between the two providers. There must be a way to shorten the bureaucratic tape at Orange Kenya. I am waiting for service and I so hope someone knows someone, honestly.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
Yes Washington, The perception that TKL is inefficient is imaginary, not real. Let me try again to understand you: a) When you approached your provider to give you data services, did they indicate in your contract that they are only capable to give you a service if another provider 'say provider x' agrees to lease them a tower space? If not (and I suspect so), why are they bothering you with details about from who they are supposed to lease tower space from? b) I believe no single provider is Kenya is a monopoly in providing any service, including back-to-back carrier services. So if I approach 'provider x' and he cannot offer what I need, I simply walk away with my cash and approach another provider who can deliver. I believe this is why competition exists in the market. c) I am currently rolling out a project which is probably similar to yours (but in another country in Africa, just emerging from decades of war). I need to lease 20 tower spaces in different locations within the country and there are 4 providers operating in the country who can offer the services I require. I approach provider A, they decline; citing in ability to deliver. I approach provider B, they decline; saying this kind of service is not among the usual services they offer to the market. I approach provider C, and yes! they are willing to sign me in and offer me services. And therefore yes, we are currently rolling out.... Can you educate your provider to try a similar approach? They are inefficient to you; offering you excuses and blames in place of the services they have signed you in for... d) At some point in time, TKL was a state corporation, funded by the exchequer to offer services in the country; irrespective of the profitability of the service(s) in question. I suppose now TKL is a private limited company, just like many others in Kenya. It might therefore be inconsequential to approach them with a 'gun' at hand and demand that they give you a service where you want; regardless of the infrastructure in place at that particular place. I no longer work for TKL (I used to), but what I know is that since TKL was privatized; they have to evaluate the profitability of every project before they sign in to deliver. Every company does that... e) Advice: Report your current provider to CCK, for they have taken your cash and signed with you a contract they are unable to deliver. Please don't shout at another provider who has nothing to do with your current contract. Regards Philip On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
@Philip,
In a strange coincidence, and e-mail has just hit my box (accidentally, because either someone wrote the wrong address or Gmail decided I was the intended recipient) and I don't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or just laugh. The e-mail is from the IT Manager of the Kenyan High Commission in South Africa.
Here is the interesting lines, and I quote:
<quote> We are really struggling to get pricing for half circuit from Telcom (K) as they are the ones to do the Kenya circuit. Can you pull some strings to get us a contact person? </quote>
<quote> Warm Greetings,
In response to your earlier text as below, please send me your order forms for our perusal. Once again, let me know if you need a high level intervention to obtain the pricing from Nairobi.
This is a vital project, and must proceed as scheduled from our end. Let the delay be from Nairobi not here.
</quote>
You can see what they are going through with TKL? It's therefore not strange that I have been waiting for over a month. Imagine if they cannot give the price of half-circuit to the govt!
I can post the whole e-mail if anyone is curious. It tells a lot about the inefficiencies with TKL.
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
@Philip,
You are very right, except for one thing - waiting for one month for a simple thing as "we're still waiting for TKL to give access to the mast" is bound to throw thousands of butterflies into one's stomach!
Sadly, this is the reason I cannot get service. One is bound to start imagining sabotage.
Orange is a product, did you say??
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Philip Adar <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi Odhiambo, TKL is in the business of offering integrated ICT services in Kenya. Orange is a product, among many other productsTKL offers.
The services you are looking for is provided to you by Access Kenya. Access Kenya therefore is your service provider; NOT Orange (a product of TKL) or Telkom Kenya Limited (the company).
My advice to you: Don't allow excuses from your service provider (Access Kenya). You have contacted them to give you a service; and they are answerable to you for the services you are paying them to deliver. Looping TKL into the contract you have with Access Kenya does not make any sense at all. Let access Kenya deal directly with their service provider and if in case their contract terms are breached; they will know the next course of action to take.
Regards Adar
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Odhiambo Washington < [email protected]> wrote:
Hello listers,
Does someone here know someone who knows someone at Orange TKL who can help me out?
I am waiting for connectivity to some remote place in the wilderness of Nanyuki for 1 month now. The cause? Access Kenya Projects Team is waiting for clearance from to access an Orange Kenya mast in Nanyuki - which is where my radios need to be mounted.
My understanding is that Access Kenya is leasing mast space from Orange Kenya's facility in Nanyuki town. However, waiting for 1 month to get approval to access the mast doesn't sound quite right, but that is what I am told it is.
Seriously, I believe the sharing of the mast is a commercial venture between the two providers. There must be a way to shorten the bureaucratic tape at Orange Kenya. I am waiting for service and I so hope someone knows someone, honestly.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Philip Adar <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes Washington, The perception that TKL is inefficient is imaginary, not real.
Hi Philip, I take it that you haven't dealt with TKL before - from a customer's perspective. I have been in this industry long enough and always pray that one day, TKL will put their house in order, even get ISO 9001:2000 certification, in order for it to move ahead. If they can get that ISO certification rightly, without taking shortcuts, I am 100% sure we'll be talking about a different entity than what we have now.
Let me try again to understand you:
a) When you approached your provider to give you data services, did they indicate in your contract that they are only capable to give you a service if another provider 'say provider x' agrees to lease them a tower space? If not (and I suspect so), why are they bothering you with details about from who they are supposed to lease tower space from?
I know for a fact that my provider uses TKLs masts to give service to their clients. The arrangements and the finer details behind it are not quite a concern to me. As it is now, there is a remote site that I have which is connected via TKL's mast. I am afraid I'll not answer the question as you put it.
b) I believe no single provider is Kenya is a monopoly in providing any service, including back-to-back carrier services. So if I approach 'provider x' and he cannot offer what I need, I simply walk away with my cash and approach another provider who can deliver. I believe this is why competition exists in the market.
Quite a good assumption (wrong belief) on your part. I assume this is because you've never faced a situation where there is only one provider you can get service from - based on several considerations. In this particular case and without generalization, it is ONLY Access Kenya who can provide the connectivity, unless I want to stick with VSAT, which I have and is quite expensive.
c) I am currently rolling out a project which is probably similar to yours (but in another country in Africa, just emerging from decades of war). I need to lease 20 tower spaces in different locations within the country and there are 4 providers operating in the country who can offer the services I require. I approach provider A, they decline; citing in ability to deliver. I approach provider B, they decline; saying this kind of service is not among the usual services they offer to the market. I approach provider C, and yes! they are willing to sign me in and offer me services. And therefore yes, we are currently rolling out....
Oh, well. Thanks you are not talking about Kenya. I take your (c) assertion as a simple distraction from the main focus.
Can you educate your provider to try a similar approach? They are inefficient to you; offering you excuses and blames in place of the services they have signed you in for...
Well, unless my provider starts putting up their own masts (complete facilities). I believe there is a very good business case why they went into the current arrangement with TKL. I am supposing you'd like to ignore that. Just so that we are in the same page, infrastructure sharing is already a reality in KE and there is no need to start building your own when you can ride on a competitor's - at a cost of course. I believe that is the scenario between AK and TKL. d) At some point in time, TKL was a state corporation, funded by the
exchequer to offer services in the country; irrespective of the profitability of the service(s) in question. I suppose now TKL is a private limited company, just like many others in Kenya. It might therefore be inconsequential to approach them with a 'gun' at hand and demand that they give you a service where you want; regardless of the infrastructure in place at that particular place.
So that I am not further distracted, please refer to my response to (b) above.
I no longer work for TKL (I used to), but what I know is that since TKL was privatized; they have to evaluate the profitability of every project before they sign in to deliver. Every company does that...
That is none of our business, right?
e) Advice: Report your current provider to CCK, for they have taken your cash and signed with you a contract they are unable to deliver. Please don't shout at another provider who has nothing to do with your current contract.
No need for this, because I have a mind and it makes me understand where the problem is. Rather than run to CCK with tears, I am trying to take some positive steps for my good and the good of TKL. How? Well, for a start, I am pointing out the inefficiency that exists at TKL. I am very sure you know more about this than I do, but I can give you an example - Safaricom started as a unit within TKL, right? The only way TKL is gonna compete in the market it is pretending to be capable of playing in is by them killing such inefficiencies. That is also why I am suggesting TKL embraces ISO 9001:2000 to improve on service delivery. I don't know of any business that made profits while behaving like TKL does - unless it's the Anglo-Leasing types, but these are more of an exception than the norm. A good example of where I feel TKL is headed is right here with us - KDN. They refused to embrace the critique they received, took those negatively (as criticism) and continued to dance within their comfort zone. You know where it is right now, no? If it's not in the doldrums, then give me a better description. Even if TKL makes 10,000 monthly on site leasing, that is still so much money and I don't see any reason why they should make a client (yes, AK is a client in this context) wait for over a month to be given access to a mast to install a radio. That's why I said earlier that I am not surprised the IT Manager of the Kenya High Commission in ZA has been struggling to get them to give a quotation for half-circuit link to the Immigration offices at Nyayo House ( http://lix.in/-c1b378 - read if you like), but that is not to say I am giving up on the push!
Regards Philip
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
@Philip,
In a strange coincidence, and e-mail has just hit my box (accidentally, because either someone wrote the wrong address or Gmail decided I was the intended recipient) and I don't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or just laugh. The e-mail is from the IT Manager of the Kenyan High Commission in South Africa.
Here is the interesting lines, and I quote:
<quote> We are really struggling to get pricing for half circuit from Telcom (K) as they are the ones to do the Kenya circuit. Can you pull some strings to get us a contact person? </quote>
<quote> Warm Greetings,
In response to your earlier text as below, please send me your order forms for our perusal. Once again, let me know if you need a high level intervention to obtain the pricing from Nairobi.
This is a vital project, and must proceed as scheduled from our end. Let the delay be from Nairobi not here.
</quote>
You can see what they are going through with TKL? It's therefore not strange that I have been waiting for over a month. Imagine if they cannot give the price of half-circuit to the govt!
I can post the whole e-mail if anyone is curious. It tells a lot about the inefficiencies with TKL.
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]>wrote:
@Philip,
You are very right, except for one thing - waiting for one month for a simple thing as "we're still waiting for TKL to give access to the mast" is bound to throw thousands of butterflies into one's stomach!
Sadly, this is the reason I cannot get service. One is bound to start imagining sabotage.
Orange is a product, did you say??
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Philip Adar <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi Odhiambo, TKL is in the business of offering integrated ICT services in Kenya. Orange is a product, among many other productsTKL offers.
The services you are looking for is provided to you by Access Kenya. Access Kenya therefore is your service provider; NOT Orange (a product of TKL) or Telkom Kenya Limited (the company).
My advice to you: Don't allow excuses from your service provider (Access Kenya). You have contacted them to give you a service; and they are answerable to you for the services you are paying them to deliver. Looping TKL into the contract you have with Access Kenya does not make any sense at all. Let access Kenya deal directly with their service provider and if in case their contract terms are breached; they will know the next course of action to take.
Regards Adar
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Odhiambo Washington < [email protected]> wrote:
Hello listers,
Does someone here know someone who knows someone at Orange TKL who can help me out?
I am waiting for connectivity to some remote place in the wilderness of Nanyuki for 1 month now. The cause? Access Kenya Projects Team is waiting for clearance from to access an Orange Kenya mast in Nanyuki - which is where my radios need to be mounted.
My understanding is that Access Kenya is leasing mast space from Orange Kenya's facility in Nanyuki town. However, waiting for 1 month to get approval to access the mast doesn't sound quite right, but that is what I am told it is.
Seriously, I believe the sharing of the mast is a commercial venture between the two providers. There must be a way to shorten the bureaucratic tape at Orange Kenya. I am waiting for service and I so hope someone knows someone, honestly.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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-- Regards
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-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
Hi Washington This is an issue of infrastructure sharing and co-location and most regulators in Africa (and perhaps around the world) that are cognizant of various issues like the environment, scarce natural resources (hills) and also sympathetic to operators needs to manage capital costs/wastage/duplication, are actively encouraging operators to share non core infrastructure like towers/masts/fibre/etc I stumbled across a document on the CCK site that reads, in part: "4.5.3 Each Operator shall, upon receipt of a request to collocate, avail its terms for site sharing or colocation. The process of requesting for site sharing or co-location shall be as set out in Annex III. 4.5.4 An Operator who declines a request to site share or co-locate shall be obliged to give its reasons to justify such refusal to site share or co-locate in writing to the requesting Operator. 4.5.4.1 any request for collocation/site-sharing that is declined, whether justifiable or not, shall be reported to the Administrator of this Code by the requesting licensee, including the reasons advanced for the denial" The document is entitled "CODE OF PRACTICE FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE IN KENYA" - it is not dated. So I gather its AK that should implore CCK to intervene. While they are right in keeping you in the loop as to why there is a bottle neck, its their job to pursue that. Here is the full document....http://www.cck.go.ke/regulations/downloads/Codes_of_Practice_Infrustructure.... One question - if TKL are the ones with a tower/mast - why not deal directly with them? Rgds F On 16 September 2012 10:04, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello listers,
Does someone here know someone who knows someone at Orange TKL who can help me out?
I am waiting for connectivity to some remote place in the wilderness of Nanyuki for 1 month now. The cause? Access Kenya Projects Team is waiting for clearance from to access an Orange Kenya mast in Nanyuki - which is where my radios need to be mounted.
My understanding is that Access Kenya is leasing mast space from Orange Kenya's facility in Nanyuki town. However, waiting for 1 month to get approval to access the mast doesn't sound quite right, but that is what I am told it is.
Seriously, I believe the sharing of the mast is a commercial venture between the two providers. There must be a way to shorten the bureaucratic tape at Orange Kenya. I am waiting for service and I so hope someone knows someone, honestly.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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Hi Francis, Thanks for this input. I am going to pass this to Access Kenya just in case this merry-go-round continues. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Francis Hook <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi Washington This is an issue of infrastructure sharing and co-location and most regulators in Africa (and perhaps around the world) that are cognizant of various issues like the environment, scarce natural resources (hills) and also sympathetic to operators needs to manage capital costs/wastage/duplication, are actively encouraging operators to share non core infrastructure like towers/masts/fibre/etc
I stumbled across a document on the CCK site that reads, in part:
"4.5.3 Each Operator shall, upon receipt of a request to collocate, avail its terms for site sharing or colocation. The process of requesting for site sharing or co-location shall be as set out in Annex III. 4.5.4 An Operator who declines a request to site share or co-locate shall be obliged to give its reasons to justify such refusal to site share or co-locate in writing to the requesting Operator. 4.5.4.1 any request for collocation/site-sharing that is declined, whether justifiable or not, shall be reported to the Administrator of this Code by the requesting licensee, including the reasons advanced for the denial"
The document is entitled "CODE OF PRACTICE FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE IN KENYA" - it is not dated.
So I gather its AK that should implore CCK to intervene. While they are right in keeping you in the loop as to why there is a bottle neck, its their job to pursue that.
Here is the full document.... http://www.cck.go.ke/regulations/downloads/Codes_of_Practice_Infrustructure....
One question - if TKL are the ones with a tower/mast - why not deal directly with them?
Rgds
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On 16 September 2012 10:04, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello listers,
Does someone here know someone who knows someone at Orange TKL who can help me out?
I am waiting for connectivity to some remote place in the wilderness of Nanyuki for 1 month now. The cause? Access Kenya Projects Team is waiting for clearance from to access an Orange Kenya mast in Nanyuki - which is where my radios need to be mounted.
My understanding is that Access Kenya is leasing mast space from Orange Kenya's facility in Nanyuki town. However, waiting for 1 month to get approval to access the mast doesn't sound quite right, but that is what I am told it is.
Seriously, I believe the sharing of the mast is a commercial venture between the two providers. There must be a way to shorten the bureaucratic tape at Orange Kenya. I am waiting for service and I so hope someone knows someone, honestly.
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