RF & Connectivity Advisory Independent Technical Due Diligence
Local ground truth, international standard.
An independent technical read on digital and energy infrastructure in East Africa — for the investors financing it and the operators building it.
01 / Services
Two service lines.
RF & Connectivity Advisory
RF planning, network review, and vendor-neutral technical assessment for the people building and financing connectivity.
Telcos, tower companies, ISPs and WISPs, and investors screening connectivity assets.
Read moreIndependent Technical Due Diligence
An independent read on the technology behind a deal — is it sound, do the capex and timeline hold.
Private-equity, venture and strategic investors, and infrastructure funds.
Read more02 / The read
Independent technical judgment, on the ground.
We read the technology behind a deal or a network the way an engineer does, and put it in terms an investment committee can act on.
03 / How we work
A method, in four steps.
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Frame
Agree the questions that decide the outcome, and the evidence we need.
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Examine
Work through the technology, the design assumptions, and the numbers.
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Pressure-test
Challenge the assumptions against fundamentals and local reality.
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Report
Findings, risks, and a clear recommendation.
04 / Who we work with
Four kinds of client.
Investors & funds
An independent technical read before you commit capital.
Operators
A technical review of a network, deployment, or connectivity asset.
Prime firms
The RF or technical component of a larger mandate.
Grant-funded developers
The analysis behind a fundable case.
05 / Selected analysis
What we’re seeing.
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Safaricom’s dominance is concentrated, not uniform: 88.8% of mobile money, but only 36.1% of fixed internet — the one Kenyan telecom market that is genuinely contested.
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Airtel Money has nearly quadrupled its share in three years. The realistic ceiling is a durable 15–20% second place, not the dethronement of M-Pesa.
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Starlink holds about 1% of Kenya’s fixed market. Its role here is rural coverage through the incumbents, not disruption against them.
RF & Connectivity
Bring us a deal, a network, or a question.
Most engagements start as a scoped, fixed-shape piece of work: an RF & Connectivity Review, or a Technical Due Diligence Sprint.