World bank ranks: Kenya second on logistics

World bank ranks: Kenya second on logistics

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Geza Ulole said:
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Yani when you finally finish the expansion works in 2019, mnatarajia muwe mmeongeza capacity ya Dar port kutoka current 18m tonnes hadi 28m tonnes (hapo tunaongelea capacity not actual volumes)....
Mwaka jana bandari ya Mombasa ilipitisha 30m tonnes! (actual volume not just capacity) tena bado hatujaanza phase 3 ya upanuzi ... you will always be one step below on that one...
 
Kafrican said:
Yani when you finally finish the expansion works in 2019, mnatarajia muwe mmeongeza capacity ya Dar port kutoka current 18m tonnes hadi 28m tonnes (hapo tunaongelea capacity not actual volumes)....
Mwaka jana bandari ya Mombasa ilipitisha 30m tonnes! (actual volume not just capacity) tena bado hatujaanza phase 3 ya upanuzi ... you will always be one step below on that one...
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I bet u r aware of expansion in Mtwara and tanga ports! aside soon to be the kick start of Bagamoyo port! BTW Mombasa port's currently capacity is 1.3 mln TEUs that is equivalent of 22 mln tons n not 28 mln tons!

TPA in $690m initiative geared to boost Port of Dar es Salaam
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July 4, 2018
04Jul 2018

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TPA in $690m initiative geared to boost Port of Dar es Salaam

  • Representatives of the port’s customers from at least seven neighbouring countries are attending a forum in the city seen as an important networking platform
ABOUT $690 million will be spent in a new initiative to boost the performance of the port of Dar es Salaam and up its overall contribution to further development of the national economy, it has been disclosed.

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According to Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) director general Eng. Deusdedit Kakoko, the money will be sourced mainly through a $600 million International Bank for Reconstruction and Development soft loan and a $30 million grant jointly offered by the UK’s Department for International Development and Trade Mark East Africa.

Speaking on the sidelines of the first-ever Port of Dar es Salaam stakeholders’ forum which began in the city yesterday, Kakoko said TPA is implementing a total of 163 projects major expansion projects to increase depth and handling capacity of the country’s seaports.

The authority has embarked on a new marketing campaign to attract and retain customers of the port of Dar es Salaam in particular, with representatives of clients from at least seven countries invited to attend the meeting dubbed ‘Transit Markets Stakeholders’ Forum’.

The forum is themed: ‘Dar es Salaam Port and Its Corridors: Enhanced Horizon to Serve Customers for Complete Satisfaction.’

Apart from local customers, foreign customers of the port attending the forum come from Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Comoros.

Kakoko said the forum serves as an important networking platform to share successes and challenges in the port’s usage as a centre of delivery for transit market goods.

“The port of Dar es Salaam has had its fair share of challenges including thefts of transit cargo and delays in cargo clearance,” he pointed out.

He explained that TPA has so far managed to install an electronic cargo monitoring system and establish a one-stop centre bringing all government agencies involved in cargo clearance under one roof.

The one-stop centre has led to a dramatic reduction in the number of days that transit cargo sits at the port, and also sharpen overall clearance efficiency.

Opening the two-day forum, the deputy minister for Works, Transport and Communication (dealing with Transport and Communication), Eng. Atashasta Nditile, reaffirmed the government’s commitment to improve ports infrastructure to facilitate the passage of more transit goods.

TPA is seeking to upgrade national seaports capacity so as to increase cargo traffic to 28 million tonnes per annum from this year.

This would be a big improvement on figures from 2013/14, when the ports collectively handled 15,427,830 tonnes of cargo, and 2014/15 when the figure was 15,979,693 tonnes.

whereas for Mombasa port

Poor design limiting Mombasa, Dar ports capacity, study says



MONDAY APRIL 16 2018





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Containers are offloaded at the Mombasa port. The facility’s installed capacity is for 500,000 TEUs but it handles more than one million. PHOTO | LABAN WALLOGA | NATION

In Summary
  • Dar es Salaam and Mombasa port volumes exceed their actual throughput capacities.
  • Mombasa has an installed capacity of 500,000 TEUs but handles more than one million.
  • Dar on the other hand has an installed capacity to handle 450,000 TEUs annually but currently does 750,000 TEUs annually.
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The poor design of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam ports is limiting their capacity to handle of cargo capacity, resulting in delays and inefficiencies.

An analysis of port development in sub-Saharan Africa, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ titled, ‘Strengthening Africa’s gateways to trade’, shows that Dar es Salaam and Mombasa port volumes exceed their actual throughput capacities.

“For the East African ports this is a factor that implies considerable delay especially during busy periods and means that significant capacity would have to be added to the ports to meet future demand,” the PwC said.

Within the region, Djibouti has the highest installed capacity of 1.8 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) annually, but only manages less than a million in volumes. Mombasa has an installed capacity of 1.3 million TEUs.

Dar on the other hand has an installed capacity to handle 450,000 TEUs annually but currently does 750,000 TEUs annually showing the capacity constraint in the region’s’ two largest ports’ infrastructure.

Operational performance

The three countries have in the last three years been upgrading their port facilities.

“There has been a lag in port investment, with port expansion and expenditure on port assets often not keeping pace with trade growth.

Together with poor operational performance this creates a bottleneck to economic growth, increasing logistics costs, reducing reliability and making African countries less globally competitive,” states the report.
“Kenya and Tanzania have stepped up investment in expanding and upgrading the two main ports in the region to ensure they play critical role in economic development since sea ports are gateways for 80 per cent of merchandise trade by volume and 70 per cent by value globally.

The two East African Community member states, which are competing to be the region’s transportation and trade hub, have cumulatively invested about $1 billion to expand and upgrade Mombasa and Dar es Salaam ports in recent years.

The Kenya government has committed resources in expanding the port and building related infrastructure such as the standard gauge railway to ensure the facility accommodates a throughput of 2.5 million TEUs by 2020.

The port is central to the Kenyan economy because 40 per cent of the country’s revenue comes from import and export duties.

“Efficient port operations in Mombasa and Dar es Salaam are critical to increased throughput and evacuation of cargo.

“Developments in multimodal operations and master planning of the ports to keep up to date with increasing throughput, which in turn fuels economic growth are critical to efficiency,” said Kuria Muchiru, a partner in charge of government and public sector at PricewaterhouseCoopers Kenya.

Mr Muchiru added that in the long run East Africa is expected to a be a major transshipment hub on the East Coast of Africa, which will reduce freight costs and contribute to the Belt and Road initiative.

Catalysts for growth

The report comes just days after Africa achievement a milestone with the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Area that creates a huge market.
It contends that investment in ports and related infrastructure to advance trade and promote overall economic development and growth is vital.

This is because a 25 per cent improvement in port performance could increase gross domestic product by two per cent, something that demonstrates the close relationship between port effectiveness and trade competitiveness.

Considering that port demand volume is expected to grow by six to eight times by 2040, sub-Saharan Africa must invest in ports and related facilities like rails and roads to make them become catalysts for growth.

This is a matter of urgency considering that many countries remain dependent on port infrastructures built before the 1960s that offer no more than seven metres depth yet today larger deep draught vessels require a depth of 10 metres or more.

According to the report, sub-Saharan Africa can achieve significant gains by investing in ports because efficient gateways have the ability to reduce the price of imported goods and increase the value of exports.

Notably, improving port performance by 25 per cent could reduce the price of imported goods by $3.2 billion annually and add $2.6 billion to the value of exports.

Transfer downtime

This would add at least $510 million per annum to GDP growth, a 2 per cent increase in GDP. Currently, it is estimated that high transport costs add 75 per cent to the price of goods in the continent.

“It is imperative to note that high port logistics costs, poor reliability and low economies of scale in trade volumes have a negative impact on trade growth in Africa meaning the continent can save an estimated $2.2 billion annually in logistics costs if the average throughput at the major ports is doubled.

“This is because the unit cost of transferring cargo through a port rapidly reduces as the volume of traffic increases,” the PwC said.

The report shows an estimated 14.5 million containers are handled at sub-Saharan ports each year, with East Africa accounting for 18 per cent of the containers.

In terms of actual freight handled, 10 ports handle more than 500,000 TEUs per year and only two of these handle more than a million per year.

Investing in port facilities is critical considering the dwell time in African ports, that is the amount of time from when a container is offloaded until it leaves a port, is up to four times longer than in Asia.

Moreover, more than 50 per cent of total land transport time from port to hinterland cities in landlocked countries is spent in ports.

Poor design limiting Mombasa, Dar ports capacity
 
Geza Ulole said:
I bet u r aware of expansion in Mtwara and tanga ports! aside soon to be the kick start of Bagamoyo port! BTW Mombasa port's currently capacity is 1.3 mln TEUs that is equivalent of 22 mln tons n not 28 mln tons!

TPA in $690m initiative geared to boost Port of Dar es Salaam
ippmedia.com/en/news/tpa-690m-initiative-geared-boost-port-dar-es-salaam

July 4, 2018
04Jul 2018

Correpondent

News
The Guardian

TPA in $690m initiative geared to boost Port of Dar es Salaam

  • Representatives of the port’s customers from at least seven neighbouring countries are attending a forum in the city seen as an important networking platform
ABOUT $690 million will be spent in a new initiative to boost the performance of the port of Dar es Salaam and up its overall contribution to further development of the national economy, it has been disclosed.

tpa-690m-initiative-geared-boost-port-dar-es-salaam

According to Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) director general Eng. Deusdedit Kakoko, the money will be sourced mainly through a $600 million International Bank for Reconstruction and Development soft loan and a $30 million grant jointly offered by the UK’s Department for International Development and Trade Mark East Africa.

Speaking on the sidelines of the first-ever Port of Dar es Salaam stakeholders’ forum which began in the city yesterday, Kakoko said TPA is implementing a total of 163 projects major expansion projects to increase depth and handling capacity of the country’s seaports.

The authority has embarked on a new marketing campaign to attract and retain customers of the port of Dar es Salaam in particular, with representatives of clients from at least seven countries invited to attend the meeting dubbed ‘Transit Markets Stakeholders’ Forum’.

The forum is themed: ‘Dar es Salaam Port and Its Corridors: Enhanced Horizon to Serve Customers for Complete Satisfaction.’

Apart from local customers, foreign customers of the port attending the forum come from Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Comoros.

Kakoko said the forum serves as an important networking platform to share successes and challenges in the port’s usage as a centre of delivery for transit market goods.

“The port of Dar es Salaam has had its fair share of challenges including thefts of transit cargo and delays in cargo clearance,” he pointed out.

He explained that TPA has so far managed to install an electronic cargo monitoring system and establish a one-stop centre bringing all government agencies involved in cargo clearance under one roof.

The one-stop centre has led to a dramatic reduction in the number of days that transit cargo sits at the port, and also sharpen overall clearance efficiency.

Opening the two-day forum, the deputy minister for Works, Transport and Communication (dealing with Transport and Communication), Eng. Atashasta Nditile, reaffirmed the government’s commitment to improve ports infrastructure to facilitate the passage of more transit goods.

TPA is seeking to upgrade national seaports capacity so as to increase cargo traffic to 28 million tonnes per annum from this year.

This would be a big improvement on figures from 2013/14, when the ports collectively handled 15,427,830 tonnes of cargo, and 2014/15 when the figure was 15,979,693 tonnes.

whereas for Mombasa port

Poor design limiting Mombasa, Dar ports capacity, study says



MONDAY APRIL 16 2018





port.jpg

Containers are offloaded at the Mombasa port. The facility’s installed capacity is for 500,000 TEUs but it handles more than one million. PHOTO | LABAN WALLOGA | NATION

In Summary
  • Dar es Salaam and Mombasa port volumes exceed their actual throughput capacities.
  • Mombasa has an installed capacity of 500,000 TEUs but handles more than one million.
  • Dar on the other hand has an installed capacity to handle 450,000 TEUs annually but currently does 750,000 TEUs annually.
ADVERTISEMENT
image.jpg

By The EastAfrican
More by this Author
The poor design of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam ports is limiting their capacity to handle of cargo capacity, resulting in delays and inefficiencies.

An analysis of port development in sub-Saharan Africa, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ titled, ‘Strengthening Africa’s gateways to trade’, shows that Dar es Salaam and Mombasa port volumes exceed their actual throughput capacities.

“For the East African ports this is a factor that implies considerable delay especially during busy periods and means that significant capacity would have to be added to the ports to meet future demand,” the PwC said.

Within the region, Djibouti has the highest installed capacity of 1.8 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) annually, but only manages less than a million in volumes. Mombasa has an installed capacity of 1.3 million TEUs.

Dar on the other hand has an installed capacity to handle 450,000 TEUs annually but currently does 750,000 TEUs annually showing the capacity constraint in the region’s’ two largest ports’ infrastructure.

Operational performance

The three countries have in the last three years been upgrading their port facilities.

“There has been a lag in port investment, with port expansion and expenditure on port assets often not keeping pace with trade growth.

Together with poor operational performance this creates a bottleneck to economic growth, increasing logistics costs, reducing reliability and making African countries less globally competitive,” states the report.
“Kenya and Tanzania have stepped up investment in expanding and upgrading the two main ports in the region to ensure they play critical role in economic development since sea ports are gateways for 80 per cent of merchandise trade by volume and 70 per cent by value globally.

The two East African Community member states, which are competing to be the region’s transportation and trade hub, have cumulatively invested about $1 billion to expand and upgrade Mombasa and Dar es Salaam ports in recent years.

The Kenya government has committed resources in expanding the port and building related infrastructure such as the standard gauge railway to ensure the facility accommodates a throughput of 2.5 million TEUs by 2020.

The port is central to the Kenyan economy because 40 per cent of the country’s revenue comes from import and export duties.

“Efficient port operations in Mombasa and Dar es Salaam are critical to increased throughput and evacuation of cargo.

“Developments in multimodal operations and master planning of the ports to keep up to date with increasing throughput, which in turn fuels economic growth are critical to efficiency,” said Kuria Muchiru, a partner in charge of government and public sector at PricewaterhouseCoopers Kenya.

Mr Muchiru added that in the long run East Africa is expected to a be a major transshipment hub on the East Coast of Africa, which will reduce freight costs and contribute to the Belt and Road initiative.

Catalysts for growth

The report comes just days after Africa achievement a milestone with the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Area that creates a huge market.
It contends that investment in ports and related infrastructure to advance trade and promote overall economic development and growth is vital.

This is because a 25 per cent improvement in port performance could increase gross domestic product by two per cent, something that demonstrates the close relationship between port effectiveness and trade competitiveness.

Considering that port demand volume is expected to grow by six to eight times by 2040, sub-Saharan Africa must invest in ports and related facilities like rails and roads to make them become catalysts for growth.

This is a matter of urgency considering that many countries remain dependent on port infrastructures built before the 1960s that offer no more than seven metres depth yet today larger deep draught vessels require a depth of 10 metres or more.

According to the report, sub-Saharan Africa can achieve significant gains by investing in ports because efficient gateways have the ability to reduce the price of imported goods and increase the value of exports.

Notably, improving port performance by 25 per cent could reduce the price of imported goods by $3.2 billion annually and add $2.6 billion to the value of exports.

Transfer downtime

This would add at least $510 million per annum to GDP growth, a 2 per cent increase in GDP. Currently, it is estimated that high transport costs add 75 per cent to the price of goods in the continent.

“It is imperative to note that high port logistics costs, poor reliability and low economies of scale in trade volumes have a negative impact on trade growth in Africa meaning the continent can save an estimated $2.2 billion annually in logistics costs if the average throughput at the major ports is doubled.

“This is because the unit cost of transferring cargo through a port rapidly reduces as the volume of traffic increases,” the PwC said.

The report shows an estimated 14.5 million containers are handled at sub-Saharan ports each year, with East Africa accounting for 18 per cent of the containers.

In terms of actual freight handled, 10 ports handle more than 500,000 TEUs per year and only two of these handle more than a million per year.

Investing in port facilities is critical considering the dwell time in African ports, that is the amount of time from when a container is offloaded until it leaves a port, is up to four times longer than in Asia.

Moreover, more than 50 per cent of total land transport time from port to hinterland cities in landlocked countries is spent in ports.

Poor design limiting Mombasa, Dar ports capacity
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Did you read the last part on the Tz article where it says Dar handled 15.4 in 2014 and 15.9 million tonnes in 2015.... and you want to belive that in 2018, you can do 28m tonnes!!!! keep on dreaming....


a TEU is roughfly 20t so a capacity of 1.3m TEUs is about 26m tonnes.... but Msa handles 1.5m TEUs(30 million tonnes)... 200k teus more than its capacity....

whereas Dar has a capacity of 450k TEUs but currently handles 750TEUs (16 million tonnes) ... 300k teus more than its capacity...


Mombasa handled over 30 million tonnes last year



Uganda transit cargo through Mombasa Port increased by half a million tons in 2017 | TradeMark East Africa
The total through put registered at Mombasa Port had a notable growth of 10.9% recording 30.35 million tons from the 27.36 million tons that was recorded in 2016. The increase was attributed to improved efficiency assisted by continued investment in infrastructure development.
 
Meanwhile, the rise of the so called white elephant. .. SGR now handles an average of 571 containers per day from the initial of about 80 containers a day back in Jan ... Rememebr the plan during design of SGR was to carry atleast 1,200 containers a day for rhe project to be able to pay back the loan on its own starting from 2020 when the loan matures... if current growth continues, we will reach and even surpuse the 1, 200 containers a day mark by next year 2019.


weekly updates of SGR cargo uptake since 1st Jan up to now
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June 6th, 2018 up by 37.02% compared to April 18th
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Deliveries of containers by road transport recorded 9,204 TEU while the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) registered 3,997 TEU.


April 18th, 2018 up by 45.27% compared to March 29th
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The Standard Gauge Rail (SGR) mode of transport continued to gain popularity at the Port of Mombasa in the week ending April 18, 2018 after a total 2,917 TEUs were ferried via rail from the Port.

April 11th, 2018 - no report
April 4th, 2018 - no report

March 29th , 2018 up by 3.34%
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The Standard Gauge Rail evacuated 2,008 TEU s up from 1,943 TEUs in the previous week.
March 21th, 2018 up by 7.17% 1,943 TEUs

March 14th, 2018 - no report

March 7th, 2018 up by 55.22%
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The rail transport evacuated 1,813 TEU s up from 1,168 TEUs handled in the previous week marking an increase of 645 TEUs or 55.22 percent.

February 28th, 2018 up by 2.01%
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Container deliveries by road transport registered 10,390 TEUs compared to 1,168 TEUs only evacuated by the rail transport.

February 21st, 2018 up by 70.64% (compared to February 7th)
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Deliveries of containers from the Port by road transport registered 10,963 TEUs while the rail evacuated 1,145 TEUs registering an increase of 825 TEUs.

February 14th, 2018 - no report

February 7th, 2018 up by 53.20%
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Containers delivered up-country by rail recorded 671 TEUs registering an increase of 233 TEUs compared to the previous week.

January 31st, 2018 up by 60.04%
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Containers delivered out of the port by the road transport grew from11, 111 TEUs to 11,865 TEUs while the rail transport also increased from 273 TEUs to 438 TEUs.
 
kennedy0000 said:
Are there qualified pilots in Tanzania?
I'm pretty sure hio ndege itaendeshwa na wakenya ama wazungu.
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Hatukurupuki we have been training our pilots ever since we placed orders! Even if foreign pilots were to be recruited no Kenyans will be allowed to fly our bird!

After recruitment of the right candidates from a pool of applicants - and training them -- the aviation experts would then deploy the cabin crew to planes that would be graded into three categories, namely, large, medium and small. Currently, the ATCL operates two Bombardier Q400 planes, thanks to President Magufuli's efforts to revive the national carrier.

On the pilots, the ATCL director said the company had already recruited pilots for the anticipated planes, and that the first batch of eight people would travel for overseas training 'anytime from now.'

Without going into details, Mr Matindi explained that "the training is important ... for the simple reason that international standards require pilots to undergo training on how to operate a certain brand regardless of their experience... this is not like (your normal) driving vehicle licence.

Tanzania: Air Tanzania Scouts for 88 New Cabin Crew
 
Geza Ulole said:
Hatukurupuki we have been training our pilots ever since we placed orders! Even if foreign pilots were to be recruited no Kenyans will be allowed to fly our bird!
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Flying a commercial plane of that size is not just about training. It's about flight hours. Thousands of them.
Huko TZ niko sure hakuna yeyote qualified.
And by the way Kenyan pilots are very highly rated. Gulf airlines have been poaching them from KQ for years.
 
kennedy0000 said:
Flying a commercial plane of that size is not just about training. It's about flight hours. Thousands of them.
Huko TZ niko sure hakuna yeyote qualified.
And by the way Kenyan pilots are very highly rated. Gulf airlines have been poaching them from KQ for years.
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There are Tanzanians flying in middle east Airlines but we have been training ours! Hatutaki upumbavu wenu huku! BTW u dont have Bombardier C series to even be considered! Meanwhile..



NB:

No loan was taken to buy any of our 8 aircraft!
 
kennedy0000 said:
Hii ficha.
The world is moving to fibre and your'e talking about 90s technology.
The average download speed a consumer can get on satellite is about 220KBps
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which is which now? Mr cable! FYI our fiber optic connection is way superior n extensive than urs! Hide ur stupidity!

Kenya to use Alphabet's balloons for rural internet

Reuters Staff

2 MIN READ


NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya will use Alphabet Inc’s system of balloons to beam high-speed Internet access in hopes of connecting more of its rural population to the web, its ICT minister said.

Known as Project Loon, the technology was developed by Alphabet’s X, the company’s innovation lab. It was used by U.S. telecom operators to provide connectivity to more than 250,000 people in Puerto Rico after a hurricane last year.


Joe Mucheru, the information, communication and technology minister, told Reuters on Wednesday that project representatives were holding talks with local telecom operators on the deployment of the technology.

“The Loon team are still working out contracts and hopefully once that is done, we can be able to see almost every part of the country covered,” he said.

The project confirmed it was holding talks locally but it did not give details.

“We are always in discussions with governments and telcos around the world,” said a Project Loon spokesperson in London.

With more than 45 million people, Kenya’s major cities and towns are covered by operator networks, but vast swathes of rural Kenya are not covered.

A Microsoft backed Kenyan start-up has been using under-utilized television frequencies to connect some of those rural communities.


“Loon is another technology that is being introduced that the licensed operators hopefully can be able to use,” Mucheru said, adding it would help the government meet its goal of reaching everyone.

“Connectivity is critical. If you are not online, you are left out.”

Reporting by Duncan Miriri; editing by Jason Neely

Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Kenya to use Alphabet's balloons for rural internet
 
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