State in fresh plans to instal fibre optic cable
By Noel Wandera
The Government is ready to lay an alternative marine fibre optic cable if implementation of the East Africa Marine Optic Fibre project (EASSy) is delayed further.
Sources told The Standard that the cable will hook Kenya to Fujiara in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at a cost of Sh5.8 billion (US$80 million), should a contractor for the EASSy project remain unknown this week."We expect that any time this week, the contractor will be announced," a source said.
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Telkom to lose Sh3b in gateway licensing shift
By Michael Omondi
When chief executives of mobile telephone service firms Safaricom and Celtel converged at a Nairobi hotel last Friday to collect international gateway licences for voice from the Communications Commission of Kenya, the one thing that occupied the minds of Kenyans was the cost benefits that are expected to accrue from it.
Telecommunications experts reckoned that direct routing of international traffic should see the cost of international calls drop significantly as service providers pass over the benefits to the consumer.
But as Michael Joseph, the CEO Safaricom and his counterpart at Celtel Gerhardt May smiled to the cameras holding what could easily pass as their tickets to freedom, one industry player was back at the drawing board crafting out a response plan for what might be the biggest threat yet to its revenue base since liberalisation of the telecoms sector began four years ago.
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Give data firms incentives, State told
By Noel Wandera
The Government has been urged to provide public data network organisations (PDNOs) with incentives to speed up the rolling out of frequencies to rural areas.
Kenya Data Network (KDN) officials on Monday said the cost of the venture discouraged PDNOs and instead operators preferred urban centres. They, however, reckon that expansion of services to the rural areas would hook up more people.
"We have 48 base stations serving non-urban centres and we expected to cover the whole country. What we need are incentives to roll-out," said Kai Wulff.
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The Government is ready to lay an alternative marine fibre optic cable if implementation of the East Africa Marine Optic Fibre project (EASSy) is delayed further.
Sources told The Standard that the cable will hook Kenya to Fujiara in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at a cost of Sh5.8 billion (US$80 million), should a contractor for the EASSy project remain unknown this week."We expect that any time this week, the contractor will be announced," a source said.
Read More...
Telkom to lose Sh3b in gateway licensing shift
By Michael Omondi
When chief executives of mobile telephone service firms Safaricom and Celtel converged at a Nairobi hotel last Friday to collect international gateway licences for voice from the Communications Commission of Kenya, the one thing that occupied the minds of Kenyans was the cost benefits that are expected to accrue from it.
Telecommunications experts reckoned that direct routing of international traffic should see the cost of international calls drop significantly as service providers pass over the benefits to the consumer.
But as Michael Joseph, the CEO Safaricom and his counterpart at Celtel Gerhardt May smiled to the cameras holding what could easily pass as their tickets to freedom, one industry player was back at the drawing board crafting out a response plan for what might be the biggest threat yet to its revenue base since liberalisation of the telecoms sector began four years ago.
Read More...
Give data firms incentives, State told
By Noel Wandera
The Government has been urged to provide public data network organisations (PDNOs) with incentives to speed up the rolling out of frequencies to rural areas.
Kenya Data Network (KDN) officials on Monday said the cost of the venture discouraged PDNOs and instead operators preferred urban centres. They, however, reckon that expansion of services to the rural areas would hook up more people.
"We have 48 base stations serving non-urban centres and we expected to cover the whole country. What we need are incentives to roll-out," said Kai Wulff.
Read More...
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