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How Telkom billed rivals after the end of contract

Telkom Kenya CEO Mugo Kibati when he appeared before the Public Accounts Committee in Parliament on Monday. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Telkom Kenya is in a spot for charging private data service providers millions of shillings to use the National Optic Fibre Backbone Infrastructure (Nofbi) despite the expiry of a Government contract.

A parliamentary watchdog committee was alarmed that since June 2016–when the five-year contract ended–Telkom Kenya has continued to bill other private service providers without any legal engagement.

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