The government of Kenya through the Communications Authority is coming up with a child online protection strategy to protect children from online vices which are rampant and easily accessible to them. According to a research carried out by the Guard Child in collaboration with the University of Hampshire the spine-chilling ...
The Communications Authority of Kenya has dismissed claims that it unethically and in a corrupt way influenced the sale of YuMobile (Essar Telcom) to both Safaricom and Airtel. CA was responding to allegations made by a former member of its board who went to media with the claims of corruption ...
Image from Kassfm.co.ke It will be another year before communication marginalized areas in the country can realize the fruits of the Universal Service Fund as directed by the law and that will ensure that underserved areas get communication infrastructure as well. While speaking at the ongoing ...
Credited by:Information.go.ke A taskforce that will seek to look into the matter of the broadcast regulations still at the draft stage will be inaugurated tomorrow by Cabinet Secretary of Information Communication Technology Dr. Fred Matiangi. Matiangi revealed this at the opening of the Communications Authority ICT ...
After going full throttle at each other during the digital migration debate and implementation, broadcasters and the government will soon find themselves on opposite sides of the ring again due to the new broadcasting regulations by the latter still in the drafting stage. The Communications Authority of Kenya is required ...
Orange Kenya and Airtel have the go ahead from the Communications Authority of Kenya to launch 4G trails on their networks meaning that they are also allowed to launch the technology on commercial basis. According to the Business Daily, the two companies are a step behind Safaricom which has already ...
Although well known among technology, broadcasting stakeholders in the country and across the larger East Africa, Communications Authority Director General Francis Wangusi became a house hold name in the country when he persistently, coherently and intelligently defended the digital migration process. With debate after debate the CA boss was able ...
Image source:Independent.com.mt Telcos through their association the Telecommunications Service Providers of Kenya (TESPOK) want more transparency for the Universal Service fund and have now asked the Communications Authority to set up an audit and update them on its status. Collectively, the companies have contributed Ksh. 3.4 ...
Weeks ago four broadcasters went off air one by one in front of baffled viewers after the Communications Authority forcefully disconnected the analogue signals belonging to the four, sparking accusations and counter accusations between the two parties. This is while at the same time roping in angry and certainly opinionated ...
On Saturday 15 February 2015 Kenyans still watching KTN , NTV, QTV and Citizen channels dramatically saw the channels disappear starting with NTV followed by Citizen and Finally KTN and no the channels could not be found on pay TV channels either. Startled viewers were left frantically hitting their remotes, ...
The African Digital Network consortium is not going to get a Broadcast Signal Distribution which will would have been the third in the country as the Communications Authority had only planned to issue two licenses, a move that is in line with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) policy agreement. Capital ...
On Thursday night at around 11.30 pm Hope FM litseners were treated to Islamic music sending them into a panic and speculations on social media were rife that the station had been hijacked by muslims, a notion that sparked accusations and counter accusations between users. In a statement, The ...
The Essar group has signed an agreement for the sale of its telecom business in Kenya. The signing came after CA (Communication Authority of Kenya) approved Essar’s YuMobile to be sold for $120million to Bharti Airtel Kenya and Kenya's Safaricom Ltd. According to Firdhose Coovadia, board member of Essar Capital, ...
The success rate of digital migration presently stands at 18 percent, with the greatest number of those using digital television decoders based in Nairobi, a report by Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK) indicates. This burgeoning number of digital TV consumers comes hardly a year ahead of the June 2015 global ...
Safaricom, Kenya’s Leading telecommunication company has put out word against Equity bank’s Mobile Virtual Network Operator that was initially set to begin July and would see subscribers use special technology SIM cards designed to marry other SIMs. The firm’s CEO Bob Collymore has expressed the same to Communications Authority via ...
