East African countries have commenced a process to lower roaming rates charged by mobile operators in the region. The East Africa Community (EAC) secretariat yesterday started the process of recruiting a firm that will study the regional mobile telephony market and make recommendations on measure to be taken to bring down roaming charges. Calls between east African nations are currently quite exorbitant.
The company will also draft a policy and regulatory framework on International Mobile Roaming Services (IMRS) within East Africa that will then be discussed among the EAC partner States before being adopted.