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To: ftth who wrote (12820)	5/8/2016 10:13:48 AM
From: elmatador	of 12823

Kind of picking up where we stopped :-) What stays on the way to adoption is price. Need lower cost than a developed market.Structural problems are facts of life that we need to deal with in order to implement solutions. Take lack of electricity for instance. Every base station has a generators set. MTN (a major African operator) is the second power utility in terms of MWh produced. They do not even bother to connect to the power Utility NEPA. Unitel in Angola spends $1 million [er month in security as Base Stations have to have round clock guards, else, Batteries, airconditioners and generator sets are gone. In the past technologies would be implemented and adopted in the developed markets and only later percolate to Africa. Now what appears in Stuttgart San Francisco or Tokio is here. There are peculiarities here too. The majority of Africans never heard a dial tone. Only a tiny minority of urban dwellers did. They moved straight to mobile. Due to low penetration of copper, operators are moving straight to fiber. They did not buy desktops not laptops (which became popular before China rise) They move straight to Smartphones.

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