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Kenyan government sets aside funds to develop domestic mobile phone industry

ICT Cabinet CS Joe Mucheru (PHOTO: Standard)

Cabinet Secretary of Information, Communication and Technology said the government had set aside Sh1 billion to help local start-ups in the mobile telephone software and hardware segments to grow.

Joe Mucheru, the ICT CS, told the annual meeting of the ICT industry in the capital Nairobi that he was concerned by the country’s imports of 50 million telephone handsets every two years, challenging local firms to start making them locally.

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