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    "id": 384119,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/384119/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I appreciate all the points that have been raised regarding this Motion, both for and against. This is because I can understand the point of view from which they are coming, but I do appreciate the spirit of the Motion. I think that the spirit of the Motion is that the Government should provide a policy framework of partnership with private telephone network providers, so as to make telephony – especially mobile telephony – more accessible to the people. I think that this is the spirit of the Motion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do agree that the Motion went a little bit too far to ask county governments to provide budgets for this mobile telephony. As one of the Senators has pointed out, Information Communication Technology (ICT) is in the province of the national Government. But apart from that, telephony is part of infrastructure. In our context of underdevelopment, this infrastructure must go at a national level to benefit from the economies of scale. Yes, you may ask a telephone company to set up a mobile network in one county. However, the result of that is that it is likely to be very expensive to be a subscriber because the market in the county may be too small for the company to make reasonable profit. So, he may set up mobile telephony, but must look very carefully at the economies of scale in doing a thing like that at the county level. So, it makes more sense to envisage mobile telephony and, indeed, setting up an infrastructure for telephony at a national or even regional level. One should read the history of the Bell Company in The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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