THE STANDARD By
Frankline Sunday |
January 20th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Communications Authority of Kenya s Nairobi Headquarter (PHOTO: FILE)
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) is in a spot for delays in implementation of a project meant to offer affordable broadband access to rural communities.
This comes on the back of rising demand for broadband connectivity, fueled by the Covid-19, which has seen several Kenyans working and attending school from their homes.
In 2012, CA invited bids from internet service providers to develop pilot broadband solutions under the TV white spaces.
This entailed exploiting unused spectrum freed by the country’s migration from analogue to digital broadcasting.
Uganda consolidated its position as the biggest roaming market for Kenyan mobile operators in the three months to September, new data by the regulator shows, buoyed by travel restrictions between the two key trading partners. Statistics by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) shows that voice calls from Uganda totalled 64.59 million minutes in the […]
It is now an offense to send a person a text message of a commercial nature without their consent in Tanzania. Sending SMSs containing advertisements or commercial services will attract a penalty of a fine of not less that Tsh10 million (About Kshs 480,000) or jail for one year or both. This is according to the Electronic Transactions Act of 2015 Tanzania.
Tanzania has put more stringent measures on its SMS services since last year’s general election which saw the current President, John Magufuli, emerge as the winner.
Promotional and Betting SMSs are common in Tanzania, just like in Kenya. However, Vodacom, Airtel Tanzania and Tigo, the country’s mobile service providers, will now have to reign in on the delivery of such messages which many citizens have complained to be a nuisance given their bulk nature.
THE STANDARD By
Fredrick Obura |
December 31st 2020 at 12:54:07 GMT +0300
Communications Authority of Kenya Headquarters (PHOTO: File)
NAIROBI, KENYA: Airtel and Telkom Kenya added more subscribers to their networks between July and September to post 27.2 and 6.3 percent market shares, respectively.
A quarterly report by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) on the other hand shows Safaricom market share in mobile subscriptions dropping by 0.5 percentage points to stand at 63.7 per cent during the quarter under review.
Similarly, Equitel lost by 0.2 percentage points to record a market share of 2.8 per cent.
According to the report, Safaricom remains the market leader in mobile data subscription at 67.5 per cent even after losing 1.2 percentage points during the period under review. Airtel and Telkom control 26.8 and 5.4 market share in data after gaining 0.8 and 0.4 percentage points respectively.