[UgaBYTES] Kigali to become a wireless City

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Dear All,

This is a powerful inspirational information for Africans. Countries with ambitions like that of Rwanda will benefit on philosophy of 'The Power-of-The-Slight -Edge'. Let us encourage them.
 Manager
Sengerema Multipurpose Community Telecentre
P.O.BOX.399 Sengerema-Mwanza Tanzania
E-mail:ncheyefb at yahoo.com
Cell: +255 784 799630 
Tel:  +255 28 2590146 
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From: Sandra Nassali <snassali at ugabytes.org>
To: ugabytes <ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org>
Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 10:00:28 AM
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.

-- 
Sandra Nassali
Community Facilitator
UgaBYTES Initiative (www.ugabytes.org)
Telecentre.org  (www.telecentrecommunity.ning.com)
Plot 2218 Ggaba Road,
2nd Floor Kangave House
P.O. Box 6081 K'la
Email  snassali at ugabytes.org
chat    (skype)- n.sandra.
Tel       +256-414-370163 
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