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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "people who can help this country meet some of their objectives at a cost that is extremely lower than what mainstream business providers of those services are charging. Madam Deputy Speaker, I know and we read about this on every other occasion. I read the other day in the newspapers about young people who are trying to rival the main data service providers who are charging on average Kshs3,000 for every 10 mbps per month. They said we can do it at Kshs700. However, because of the bottlenecks that exist including some very frivolous laws and regulations that we approve in this House on what is the minimum amount you can charge as an internet service provider, they end up pricing themselves out some of the owners of these innovations. If you raise the bar or the minimum amount that they can charge, then it becomes difficult for them to compete with some of these mainstream people. This is because some of these big companies survive because of the economic muscle that they wield and the fact that they can influence policy. Unfortunately, sometimes even legislations such us this that we end up making laws that if we try and push and pursue things that will make it easy for younger people to compete with them, it becomes extremely difficult. I look forward to a time where once we have come up with such legislation, we can go deep down to the details and address some of these issues, including the challenges of things like taxation and market entry barriers that some of these young people face coming up with their innovations."
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