Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Yes, so that I am on record hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, if we leave this provision in Clause (a) as it is, definitely, it is going to be abused. There are a lot of frivolous--- view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, what the hon. Member for Kitui Central has said is very important. Many amendments have been made in considering the amendment that we made here. I plead with the Chair to take us through the proposed amendments subject to withdrawal of items h(i) and then everything will be cleaned. That is because we also must use our time well. We do not want to sit here until midnight. view
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion as amended. I, too, have some amendments which I would like to include. But before I do that, I note that the Committee Report in so far as attempting to give us a modern security system is concerned is good. However, if you look at the Report, we still have some few unanswered questions and one of them is this: The Report is not clear on what the current spectrum allocation policy of CAK is. It will also be The electronic version of the Official Hansard ... view
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: important for a Report like this one to indicate how many licenced companies are currently in need of frequencies. This is important because if you look at this Report that has been done by the Committee, you will notice that it talks, for instance, on page 13, highly about the Safaricom’s record. But for those of us who sit in the ICT Committee and the country as a whole know that Safaricom, for a long time, has had problems with quality of service. Then if you look at page 17, then you have to ask a question: How paragraph 3 ... view
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, again on page 17, the Committee Report talks about the rolling out of 4G LTE Network for commercial use. What that does is that it takes away the aspect that we call technology neutrality and it confers unfair advantage to Safaricom Limited. This is important because when you take away technology neutrality and confer unfair advantage to a competitor, you enhance the position of that entity as a dominant player. In fact, that, in itself, will be a vote for entrenching monopolistic tendencies in the telecom sector. When you have a dominant player, the danger is that more ... view
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, moving to my amendment and arising from those issues, I propose in amendment No.1, which I hope hon. Members have, that the report be amended after hon. Duale’s amendment as follows:- view
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: “THAT, the Government urgently introduces broadband infrastructure regulations to encourage open access, transparency and non-discrimination and actualize the National Broadband Strategy to provide high speed broadband access to all Kenyans.” view
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: The advantages of open access to GLT are many. One of them is that it ensures most efficient use of limited spectrum resources. When my good friend, Eng. James Rege spoke, what he did not tell the country and Parliament is that a frequency is a property of the people of Kenya. So, you cannot just give it away because you have a feeling that it is lying idle. That is our property. The late Julius Nyerere said that our minerals will not rot. Our frequency will also not rot. So, we would rather wait until such a time that ... view
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, open access LTOs also bring affordable, quick and widely available LT services by significantly lowering threshold of economic viability. Open access enables higher penetration making it cheaper and hence enabling its use in healthcare and other social services. This is an opportunity that this House cannot lose. 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
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: We should use this opportunity that we have as a House to urgently introduce broadband infrastructure regulations so that we can control. view