KYOCERA to Provide "iBurstTM System" Wireless Broadband
 Base Stations and Terminals to Republic of Kenya
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(This document was translated from the Japanese press release.)
February 01, 2006
Kyocera Corporation (President and COO : Makoto Kawamura) is pleased to announce the commercial introduction of iBurst wireless broadband services in the Republic of Kenya, starting February 2, 2006.
iBurst base stations and terminals designed and produced by Kyocera will be provided to Africa Online (CEO : Frederick Murunga), the Kenyan Internet service provider (ISP).
Africa Online will commence iBurst wireless broadband services in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, with plans to expand service into Mombassa, Nakuru, Kisumu, and Nanyuki. The company is targeting 20,000 subscribers within one year. In addition to iBurst, Africa Online plans to introduce wireless VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services in 2006, offering the ability to transmit data and voice simultaneously to the areas without land lines.
iBurst, which is compatible with VoIP, offers a wireless broadband Internet environment that enables users to receive data at up to 1Mbps for downlinks, while maintaining stable, high communication speed even with many simultaneous accesses.
This iBurst system has been adopted as a standard by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). On January 19, 2006, at the IEEE802.20 working group, iBurst was officially approved as "IEEE802.20 Initial Technical Specification", in the name of "MBTDD 625kMC mode" *1. By the end of 2006, the iBurst system is expected to be authorized as an official specification at IEEE802.20.
Kenya will be the fourth country to offer commercial iBurst services, following Australia, South Africa, and Azerbaijan.
By providing the iBurst system to communications carriers around the world, and continually improving the system's function and performance, Kyocera hopes to help a large number of people obtain a better communication environment. The company is targeting sales of 30 billion yen for this business during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2007.
*1. MBTDD stands for Mobile Broadband Time Division Duplex.
625kMC naming is derived from the fact that iBurst is the transmission technology which aggregates multiple carriers within 625kHz bandwidth - this is called as "Multi Carrier".
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| Company |
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Africa Online Ltd. |
| Established |
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1995 |
| Location |
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Nairobi, the Republic of Kenya |
| CEO |
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Mr.Frederick Murunga |
| Main businesses |
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An Internet service provider. A member of the eight-company Africa Online Group, which has operations in Coted'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. |
| URL |
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www.africaonline.com/ |
| Base stations, terminals |
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Base stations (Antennas) |
Terminals (Card type) |
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Terminals (Desktop type) |
Terminals (USB type) |
* For details of the iBurst system, refer to
http://global.kyocera.com/prdct/telecom/office/
* iBurstTM is a trademark or registered trademark of Array Comm, Inc. in the United States.
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