Digital City

Capacity Crunch

Digital City

It is observed that international bandwidth

will exceed current capacity before 2018

2018

Digital City

Age and Usage

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2014/05/22/millennials-more-likely-to-use-home-networks-for-media-purposes/

The younger eat bandwidth for Breakfast!

Digital City

“Most interesting is how rapidly this media orientation

drops off as the age of the home network user

increases,” noted Michael Greeson, TDG president and

co-author of the new report.

“Beyond Millennials, this emphasis shifts incrementally toward a more data-driven behavior characterized by the use of net-connected,

networked PCs for ‘productivity’ or non-media

needs.”

And youngsters are the majority

Digital City

Digital City

It is observed that international bandwidth

will exceed current capacity before 2018

2018

Build to stay ahead of the curve

09th April 2014

The Fiber landscape

On present trends, in 4 years Safaricom will have more fiber than

the whole competition

Total Fiber network 8.850 Km

• Telkom Kenya 4,500km, • JTL 4,000km

• AccessKenya 350km (major % is direct-buried)

• Safaricom Digital City has not only quantity

• It has quality • Fibre is FTTx ready.

• Competition has limited room to expand

09th April 2014

Where is Safaricom today

20 months from contract awarded to on service Safaricom delivered 923 Km on service With 587 Km of metro fiber work in progress in advanced stage of contrition to be delivered second quarter FY Two cities Nakuru and Mombasa already with metro fiber on service 431 sites migrate to Safaricom Digital City 170 Sites to complete migration between end June and end July Safaricom has put on service 170 FTTB connections

09th April 2014

No potential customer is away from a Safaricom Digital City Project fiber point

Residential

Commercial

Industrial Safaricom Digital City is never more than 300m away from any customer

09th April 2014

Only Safaricom can stay ahead of the curve

Staying ahead of the curve Only Safaricom Digital City on boarded resources has delivery capabilities of 600km per year

09th April 2014

FTTH

Safaricom needs to leverage its broadband transport to the PoP to be part of the content ecosystem As we control cost quality and scalability of our sites (PoP) backhaul to the sites We will have the advantage of having the ability to control end-to end service quality. Give content providers the ability to offer 1 million simultaneous viewers of broadcast events here in Nairobi