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State to waive license fees on local Internet

ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru during Telkom Kenya and Loon Technology launch.[Standard]

The government will waive licence fees for firms that set up community networks in underserved areas of the country to accelerate Internet connectivity. 

This is according to a draft policy by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), that seeks to create a new licence category for community networks and develop financial and administrative requirements proportional to their scope and scale.

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