Six major deployments of WiMAX technology are underway in Kenya
24 February 2012
...rolling out national and metropolitan fibre backbones and wireless broadband access networks, offering converged voice, data and video/entertainment services. At least six major deployments of WiMAX technology are underway, and third generation (3G) mobile broadband services have been launched. Advanced services such as IPTV/triple-play, e-commerce, e-learning and e-government are now rapidly evolving.
The country's incumbent fixed-line telco, Telkom Kenya, is revamping its infrastructure and services under the Orange brand with fresh capital from its new majority shareholder, France Telecom, and it has also re-entered the mobile market. A simplified and converged licensing regime introduced in 2008 has lowered the barriers to market entry and increased competition by allowing operators to offer any kind of service in a technology- and service-neutral regulatory framework. Several fibre infrastructure sharing agreements have been forged.
A price war has characterised Kenyas mobile communications market since 2008, following the market entry of the third and fourth network, Econet Wireless Kenya (EWK, in which Indias Essar acquired a stake), and Telkom Kenya under the Orange brand. Subscriber growth is now forecast to...
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