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    "id": 239577,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kagwe",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will not call it a dispute. But the current discussions between Celtel and Safaricom on one side and Telkom Kenya on the other, revolve on the use of CDMA technology. That is wireless telephony. What is happening is that the CDMA technology that is being rolled out by Telkom Kenya is like a landline that will cost about Kshs5. But it is in a mobile format that enables you to move around with your landline and communicate at Kshs5. That is better than the Kshs15 that mobile telephone providers are charging. Therefore, the view held by Safaricom and Celtel is that Telkom Kenya has directly entered into the mobile telephone business to compete with them. The Ministry has taken the following position:- (i) Our position is not to protect any particular company, including Telkom Kenya. Our job, as a Ministry, is to try and bring down the cost of telephone communications, nationally and internationally, as much as possible. Consequently, our long-term position is that other mobile telephone providers will be issued with the necessary licences to roll out whatever technology they want, in direct competition with Telkom Kenya. The unification of licences will mean that there is competition at every level. As far as we are concerned, there are no possible losses. The only possible loss will be made by organisations that will be left behind in technology. They will not survive. But organisations that will run along technology and stay ahead with new inventions will make a lot of money. Kenyans will benefit because the cost of making calls will come down."
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