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    "id": 239568,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/239568/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kagwe",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 229,
        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, indeed, I am aware. (b) The Government has taken the following steps aimed at improving telecommunication services in the country and lowering the cost of services as follows: (i) Opening of international lines has necessitated a decline in pricing from a high cost of Kshs120 per minute in 2002, to Kshs15 per minute today on landline through Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and to 30 cents on the mobile line. (ii) Within the new ICT framework, the Government has encouraged competing technologies, that is, the Global System for Mobile (GSM) and Code Division Multiple Acess (CDMA). This will further reduce the price of local calls. Already, the billing of local calls has changed to per-minute-call from per-three-minute- call that used to cost Kshs10. This means that if you talk for one minute, you will only pay Kshs5 as opposed to Kshs10 in the previous billing. (iii) Within the next one month, the Government will roll out an extensive fibre optic network throughout the country that would substantially lower the cost of communication."
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