Ready to roll out $500m 4G network by 2013

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Kenya aims to roll out a high-speed fourth-generation (4G) mobile data services network by 2013, at an estimated cost of $500 million, to meet growing demand for wireless access to the internet in East Africa's largest economy.

Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary at the ministry of information and communication, told Reuters that all Kenyan mobile phone firms had signed up to the new project and it was now awaiting approval from the ministry of finance.

"We need to have it (the network) before the next elections (due in March 2013). That is what we are targeting," he said late Thursday on the sidelines of a US-Kenya conference on infrastructure projects.
So-called 4G LTE (long term evolution) networks promise download speeds more than five times those of 3G and are designed for data, rather than voice, as well as supporting high-definition video conferencing.  read on: arabnews.com