[UgaBYTES] Kigali to become a wireless City

[Meddie Mayanja]

Very interesting indeed... This would require a number of e-commerce and e-government services to make the most of the infrastructure. 

For now, Rwanda is fast becoming the model in Africa - how political will and commitment can take a country so far in innovation and creativity.

Best times ahead.

Meddie

Meddie Mayanja
Senior Program Officer
telecentre.org, IDRC Canada
tel:  (613) 236-6163, ext 2604


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From: ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org [mailto:ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org] On Behalf Of Sandra Nassali
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 2:00 AM
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Subject: [UgaBYTES] Kigali to become a wireless City

Kigali will soon go wireless after the government launched a $7.66 million wireless broadband (WiBro) facility that is set to make it the first "hot spot" capital city in Africa.

The service will go commercial in three months.

The wireless Internet facility was built by Korea Telecom, South Korea's largest fixed-line telephone operator and second-largest mobile carrier.

Korea Telecom clinched the $7.66 million deal in 2007 from the Rwandan government to build an infrastructure for the WiBro technology-based network.

"The launch marks the first entry of WiBro technology into Africa.

Along with a number of similar projects in Africa, the South Korean company is also undertaking a $40 million project that commenced in 2008 to provide a network for Internet access in Rwanda called the Kigali Metropolitan Network.

The Kigali Metropolitan Network (KMN), which is laid on a fibre optic loop, is a large computer network that spans a metropolitan area.

It also provides Internet connectivity for local area networks in a metropolitan region, and connects them to wider area networks like the Internet.

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