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Mawingu eyes bigger slice of broadband market

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Farouk Ramji, CEO Mawingu Networks. [File, Standard]

When it launched operations in 2014 to deliver low-cost internet to remote locations across the country, Kenyan internet service provider Mawingu Networks was embarking on an ambitious quest.

The company bet on TV white spaces - spectrum unutilised by television broadcasting - to transmit high-speed internet in remote locations at affordable costs with initial deployments in Nanyuki and Laikipia.

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