{"id":190999,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/190999/?format=json","text_counter":172,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"A BILL TO AMEND THE KENYA COMMUNICATIONS ACT THAT, considering that Kenya has over eight million mobile telephone subscribers; considering further that mobile phones have almost replaced landline phones as the means of communication; cognizant that mobile phones can be used to spread hate messages through short message service (sms) as it happened during the post election period; aware further that in most countries, all mobile phone subscribers are required by law to register with the service providers; this House do grant leave for introduction of a Bill to amend the Kenya Communications Act No.2 of 1998 in order to make it mandatory for mobile phone subscribers to register with the service providers."}