Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Secondly, if you do this split, you will cause regulatory confusion. We will split a telecommunication company into a bank, the others into a voice service or data service which will become very confusing. From experience, differential licensing was tried among the telecommunication companies in India, but it failed. Why do we want to experiment on issues that have failed elsewhere? The current best practice in ICT is ICT service management, where you look at ICT as a service right from the inception. There are five stages of ICT service development. It starts from the design up to service operation. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: When you are conceptualising an ICT service in the modern scheme of things, you think widely. You think about how many other services can ride on this main service. For example, Safaricom Company started by offering voice services. However, with time, they discovered that they could offer data services and mobile money services which were more expensive. It means The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: that every time they create a new service, they upgrade and overhaul their systems. However, if they decided from the word go to start with all the services in mind, it would have been cheaper. The concept in the global ICT of things is to try and ensure that we have as many services as possible running on one platform. If we legislate in this manner, we will kill that kind of innovation. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: I agree that all this has been made necessary because of the pressure that Kenyans feel. However, we must understand where the problem is. The problem we have in our telecommunication industry is regulation. The CAK, the CBK and the Competition Authority of Kenya are not doing their work. If they do their work well, Hon. Elisha, who is my good friend, would not have come up with the Kenya Information and Communications (Amendments) Bill. He came up with it because these people are sleeping on the job. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for protecting me. The Member is my good friend. We sit in the Committee on Implementation and he was trying to catch my eye. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: The problem that we have in the telecommunications industry is regulation. The CAK is not doing its job. We have a serious problem. If they were doing their job, they would first of all do the right things. We have too many regulations that they have come up with. However, they have not implemented them. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation and we took time to come up with a Report which identifies the regulatory and legislative gaps in the telecommunications industry. We made recommendations. To date, CAK has done nothing on it. This is ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Lastly, is on the issue of call drops. This should be an issue of quality of service regulation which should be implemented by the CAK. There is also the issue of the Universal Service Fund (USF). Add me one minute, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The USF is another major challenge which falls under the CAK, which is the manager. I agree with Hon. Elisha on this that we need a way of knowing how this money is shared. Recently, we had a tender that was issued of about Kshs1.57 billion and some of the companies that were awarded the tender ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Bill, but it needs to be amended. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support this Motion. As many Members have said, the Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning has done a wonderful job. This is a new trend of doing things. We want to encourage the Committee to continue carrying out such tasks to ensure that our public utilities are able to generate revenues that can support the economy. I also want to agree that for a long time, this particular service has been handled by only one company – Grain Bulk Handlers Limited. It is high time that we had this business ... view