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    "id": 19745,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/19745/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 202,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you for the opportunity and to understand that it is not very easy to satisfy the Chair and, therefore, I will try my best. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the first part asking why Safaricom is charging citizens residing in parts of the Member’s constituency international rates for calling, I would like to reply in this way. I will try and make it easier. First of all, it is not Safaricom charging and secondly, these are not international rates. These are roaming rates. There is a difference between the two. The roaming rates are surcharged because the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) suggests so; that, if you consume services from another country in your country, you have to pay the rates obtaining at that time which are called roaming rates. The question should be that; how come the citizens of Kenya are consuming the services of a network from another country? I am trying to get outside what is written because I want it to be the final day for us to answer this particular Question. Mr. Speaker, Sir, signals do not know international boundaries. They do not know where the country ends and where another country starts. Therefore, from time to time if you go to Kacheliba Constituency which is represented here by Yours Truly, the Minister in charge of this sector, your telephone will read “MTN welcomes you to Uganda”, yet you are in Kenya. This is exactly the case and that is what the hon. Member is asking. I think the reason for this is that MTN masts across the border are shooting in the direction of Kenya. There is no control or limit as to how far it can go. Therefore, when those signals arrive in Kenya they show in your handset---"
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