Fibre optic network needs a rethink
Friday February 26 2021
By JAINDI KISERO
Summary
The biggest weakness has been failure by policy to guide the industry into a thoroughly competitive sector with more than one profitable player where consumers enjoy competitive prices and consumer protection issues are observed keenly.
Way back in 2018, the Communications Authority of Kenya invited the public to make submissions on a telecommunications competition market study that was conducted by the consultant Analsysys Mason.
One of the suggestions made was that the market needed to adopt what is known in jargon as asymmetric mobile termination rates as a corrective remedy and to promote more competition in a market dominated by one player.
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February 14th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Acting Director-General Communications Authority of Kenya Mercy Wanjau during World Post Day celebrations in Nairobi. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
The Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) and the National Assembly are at loggerheads over a proposal to inject Sh1 billion annually into the Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK), dealing a blow to the efforts to revive the ailing parastatal.
The National Assembly had recommended that CA injects Sh1 billion annually into PCK from proceeds of the Universal Service Fund (USF), the authority’s kitty to finance network infrastructure development in marginalised areas.
The proposals are contained in a report by Parliament’s Labour and Social Welfare Committee, following hearings on PCK’s failure to pay employee salaries between March and August last year.