| 08:30 - 09:30 | Registration / Participants' check-in
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| 09:30 - 10:00 | Opening Session
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Patrick Nyirishema, Director General, RURA, Rwanda
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Seyni Malan Faty, SG12RG-AFR Chairman
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Martin Adolph, ITU
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Group photo and tea break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Session 1: Overview of ITU, ITU Activities in Africa, ITU-T standardization activities
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Anne Rita Ssemboga, Program Officer, ITU Regional Office for Africa [
Biography I
Presentation ]
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Martin Adolph, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
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11:00 - 12:00
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Session 2: Round table on the role of policy makers, regulators, operators, regional and international organizations in addressing QoS for telecommunication services
Moderator:
Seyni Malan Faty, SG12RG-AFR Chairman
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Patrick Nyirishema, Director General, RURA, Rwanda
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Amit Chawla, Chief Executive Officer, Airtel, Rwanda
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Lizzy Tsheko, Manager of Quality of Service (QoS), BOCRA, Botswana:
Quality of Service Regulation [
Biography I Presentation ]
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12:00 - 13:30
| Lunch break
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| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Session 3: Assessing QoS of mobile money services
Moderator:
Tahiry Rakotoheriniaina, ARTEC, Madagascar
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Sharif Banamwana, Airtel, Rwanda:
Mobile Financial Services in Rwanda, Assessing the QoS Performance [
Presentation ]
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Paul Mbonyi, Rwanda Consumer’s Rights Protection Organization (ADECOR)
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Amadou Sowe, Senior Manager Consumer Affairs-Technical, PURA, The Gambia:
Mobile money in Gambia: status, challenges and lessons learnt [
Biography I
Presentation ]
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Joachim Pomy, Consultant, Germany:
Methodology for measurement of QoS KPIs for digital financial services [
Biography I
Presentation ]
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Tea break |
| 15:30 - 17:00 |
Session 4: QoS and QoE assessment and benchmarking for mobile networks
Moderator:
Melvin Emlyn King, NATCOM, Sierra Leone [
Biography ] [ Session Summary ]
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Brice Murara, RURA, Rwanda: MNO Network Performance, QoS , QoE Enforcement , Rwanda’s Experience [
Biography I
Presentation ]
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Chuma Vuningoma, Network Director, Airtel, Rwanda:
Regulatory frameworks for QoS and QoE assessment and benchmarking for mobile networks [
Biography I
Presentation ]
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Samuel Agyekum, NCA, Ghana:
Addressing QoS challenges within the African Sub-region: A 3-tier approach [
Biography I
Presentation ]
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5 March 2019
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| 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session 5: QoS and QoE aspects of OTTs; QoS and QoE assessment and benchmarking for mobile networks
Moderator:
Ya Amie Touray, PURA, The Gambia [ Session Summary ]
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Mohamad Kiwan, MTN, Rwanda [ Presentation ]
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Bertrand Kisito Nga, MINPOSTEL, Cameroon:
Evaluating QoS in 3G networks with ITU-T standards: Case study Yaoundé [ Biography I Presentation ]
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Robert Echeda and
Fiona Kamikazi, Officer Telecoms Compliance, UCC, Uganda:
QoS monitoring in Uganda [
Biography I
Presentation ]
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Ntsane Mole, Technology Standards and Numbering engineer, LCA, Lesotho:
QoS &QoE benchmarking: experiences and challenges [
Biography I
Presentation ]
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Fabrice Kouhon Derou, ARTCI, Côte d’Ivoire:
QoS monitoring in Côte d’Ivoire [ Biography I Presentation ]
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tea break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 6: QoS, QoE and network performance considerations for 5G and IoT
Moderator:
Samuel Agyekum, NCA, Ghana
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Faisal Ghazaleh, Vice President / Solution Engineering, InfoVista, United States:
The shift with 5G: From technology to QoS/QoE testing [ Biography I Presentation ]
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Ghislain Nkeramugaba, Deputy Managing Director, Revolution’Air, Rwanda [ Biography I
Presentation ]
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break
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| 14:00 - 15:00 |
Session 7: Tools and methodologies for QoS and QoE evaluation, network planning and optimization
Moderator:
Collins Mbulo, Senior Engineer, QoS Monitoring, ZICTA, Zambia [
Biography ]
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Walter Yoong, Senior Project Manager Mobile Network Testing (MNT), Rohde & Schwarz, Germany:
Network Performance Score (NPS) Method [
Biography I
Presentation ]
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Tahitii Obioha, Planet Network International, France:
Perspectives on QoS evaluation and benchmarking [
Biography I
Presentation ]
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Carlos Pérez Sainz, Telecommunication Engineer and EMEA Sales Manager, Ibys Technologies, Spain:
Views on QoS evaluation and benchmarking [
Biography I
Presentation ]
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15:00 - 15:30
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Workshop conclusions and closing - Outcomes Report |
| 15:30 | Farewell tea |
