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    "content": "the water usage, but not connection of the water. You should also charge for road or fibre usage, not the road or the fibre itself. That can help in keeping down the cost of connectivity. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other cause for the slow uptake that has been highlighted is that every person who connects fibre to the counties has to dig a separate path. This is total inefficiency. What should happen is one of two things. Either, when we are constructing roads, we must lay ducts to the design of a road, to allow fibre optic cables to pass through. In so doing, we can keep the cost of digging low. It is environmentally unfriendly and expensive when everybody starts digging the ground. The only way to avoid that is to make it mandatory that when you are digging any road of any kind, we must make sure that we put in place ducts. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue is the high cost of CCK licenses for 4G and other new technology that is coming up. It is also expensive. So, what we should be talking about is that, as we upgrade from 3G to the 4G spectrum, what we should do is discount to companies with frequencies for that technology so that even as we wait for the fibre optic cable to come, the companies can use 4G to be able to connect themselves to IFMIS and also to be able to create the jobs that they are talking about. Therefore, I urge that this House supports these efforts. This House should not only support the effort, but also the Implementation Committee should ensure that the fibre optic cable has been connected. With those few words, I beg to move and ask Sen. (Prof.) Lesan to second the Motion."
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