[afnog] Standards wars (was: [members-discuss] Alteration of the Constitution of AFRINIC)

[Amin Dayekh]

Dear SM

Good insight thank you, i read the links with keen interest.

I met Nokia (IT equipment) on afpif and from our side meeting seems
promising for my use at MegaMore.

My mention of Nokia was their bad choice at the time between Android vs
Microsoft as os for their phones,  they thrilled and conquered in Symbian
but failed to upgrade and have continuity.

I would also give another example of Glo, aka glo1 in Nigeria, one of the
first providers and with a national copper fiber network that spanned all
over the country, however bad maintenance, upgrade of the fiber network,
and lack of vision has taken a good portion of their clients to newly
established companies at the time.

On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM <sm+afrinic at elandsys.com> wrote:

> Dear Amin,
> At 01:11 PM 16-08-2025, Amin Dayekh wrote:
> >Indeed an upstream that will tie any network to a specific brand
> >category is untrue.
> >
> >With the rapid changes in our industry we should have always be
> >openminded to change, so that we dont fall prey to Nokia story
>
> One of the problem which impacted Nokia is its localization
> strategy.  I suggest looking into Transsion.  The company had a 52%
> market share in the region in 2024. [1]  It does not have much of a
> presence over here.  I guess that the company's strategy is only
> effective in some parts of the region.
>
> The following is from 2015: http://r.elandsys.com/r/68147  The
> operating system never made it as a mobile platform.  I visited the
> customer outlet of an Internet service provider today.  Most of the
> mobile phones on display are Asian brands.  One of them is a $200
> phone with an Exynos 1480 chipset.  I previously tested some apps on
> it.  The performance was comparable to what I would have expected
> from a high-end phone.  The specific model would not work well in the
> U.S. as it does not support all the 5G bands used in that region.
>
> Someone would have to build the network for the customer to be able
> to use the functionality which the phone is built for.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
> 1. https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/african-smartphone-market-Q2-2024
>
>
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