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    "id": 541690,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/541690/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Rege",
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        "legal_name": "James Kwanya Rege",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support the Committee’s exemplary work. Hon. Keynan was a Member of my Committee when I was chairing the Energy and Information Communication Technology (ICT) Committee of the Tenth Parliament. I know him as a thorough researcher. He has come up with an excellent report on this privatization. I am one of those who opposed the privatization of Telkom when it was being undertaken, because of many things. First, people did not get rid of what I call the “spaghetti network” in Eastleigh, which carries all of the E1 networks that bring in carriers from overseas that infringe on Kenya’s monetary gain in international networks. Telkom Kenya inherited even the remote area CDMA network which we put in place to assist rural areas. It inherited it for free; it did not pay for it because the Government continued to pay for it. It was millions of dollars which were provided, but Telkom Kenya did not make it usable by the public at large and eventually it died. On many occasions, I personally advised Telkom Kenya to make sure that the CDMA worked, and also that they should get into data network to assist them come up in competition with Safaricom."
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