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    "content": "communication services. This includes policy formulation and communications technology, broadcasting, film development, dissemination of public information as well as oversight of the semi-autonomous agencies that fall under the jurisdiction of the Ministry. Communication is vital to the attainment of the development agenda of this country because increased access to information through better communication directly impacts on economic growth. The Vision 2030 identifies Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) which is heavily dependent on ICT as one of the sectors that will immeasurably drive the growth of the economy. Between 2007/2008, the telecommunications industry witnessed an increase in foreign direct investment as a result of the privatization of the sixth line operator; Telkom Kenya. About the same period, competition in the market also intensified due to increased roll-out of services by Orange Mobile and the launching of services by Econet Kenya Limited. Safaricom was also assigned a spectrum for 3G commercial services which was initially rolled out in Nairobi and Mombasa. The Telecommunication sub-sector continued to experience tremendous growth fueled by heavy investment in the mobile telephone sub-sector indicating a preference in the country for electronic means of communication. However, among telecommunication services, internet is among the least accessible in the country. This is mainly due to the weak competition regular to the framework as well the lack of the under-sea or over-land fibre optic cable. That means that set up costs are relatively high. However with the gold life of the Seacom Cable soon to be at the Coast, it is expected that this trend will revert. For broadcasting, there was increased demand for spectrum allocation by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK). There was total of 30FM new frequencies, out of a total of 295 applications while the numbers of applicants awaiting allocation for television frequencies increased from 143 in 2007 to 192 in 2008."
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