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Communication Authority accused of ignoring court orders over digital migration

Standard Group CEO Sam Shollei at the Supreme Court Wednesday during the mention of a case pitting Communications Authority of Kenya against three media houses over digital migration. [Photo: WILLIS AWANDU/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) defied Supreme Court orders given on September 29 last year to issue three media houses with a Broadcast Signal Distribution (BSD) licence and frequencies to enable them migrate to the digital platform.

According to lawyers Paul Muite, Issa Mansur and Kiragu Kimani, representing Africa Digital Network (ADN) - a consortium of Standard Group, Nation Media Group and Royal Media Services - the regulator backtracked in the last minutes of talks and withdrew the authorisation it had issued on November 25, 2014.

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