Hon. William Kipkemoi Kisang

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 651 to 660 of 1131.

• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: This is very important. For local investors, if you are told to pay Kshs2.9 billion in advance, it will be difficult and it will be an entry barrier. That is why local investors can be given a softer option where they pay Kshs250 million over a period of 10 years instead of paying Kshs2.5 billion at once. That comes as a condition of building infrastructure. view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: On the market share of telecommunication service providers, the Committee recommends that the CAK reviews the market every two years to ascertain the levels of competition including dominance by any mobile operators and reports to the National Assembly biannually on whether The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: a dominant player exists within the sub-sector, including investment in infrastructure as a precondition for the issuance of licences in the sub-sector. Each applicant is required to demonstrate a clear investment plan. In the past, there are some investors who came in like ESSAR, and stayed with licences. After a short while, they exited by selling the spectrum to other players. It is important that when investors are given licences, they should give a clear plan on how they intend to invest. view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: The Kenya Information and Communications Act should be amended to provide a clear definition of market share with reference to gross revenues as relates to declaration of a dominant telecommunication service provider. view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: On broadband services and rates, the Committee recommends the enactment of critical infrastructure legislation to provide appropriate framework for protection of key information infrastructure within six months. The legislation is to be introduced by the Committee and should contain provisions to the effect that all infrastructure built using the Universal Service Fund should be available for sharing by all telecommunications providers. Currently, fibre is not treated as a critical infrastructure. If the optic fibre cable network goes down, it means all our mobile money and communications will go down. If you are at the hospital and you want to discharge ... view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: There is the issue of aligning the building code with regard to access for installation of fibre and permitting access to buildings by all ICT service providers. Currently, when providers are the first ones to go to buildings, they ensure that others do not go in. It is important for us to check our building code so that it is open for whoever wants to install fibre optic. This will ensure that we have options. The Committee recommends that the CAK uses the Universal Service Fund to build new base station accessible to all network operations in the underserved counties ... view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: The CAK and the Ministry, on matters relating to ICT, should formulate and publish regulations for provisions relating to critical infrastructure, which I mentioned earlier under the Computer Misuse and the Cybercrimes Act, 2018 within six months. The CAK should review the current licensing regime within six months and report to the National Assembly on measures taken to ensure equity in issuance of licences. Some operators have said that it looks like there are those who have advantage over others. We want to monitor this and see that people are treated equitably. view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: On SMS, the Committee recommends that the CAK consults the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and establishes a glide path for reduction of mobile termination rates within two years and the Ministry responsible for ICT publishes regulations on fair competition, equality of treatment, tariffs and interconnection. view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: On Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) and SIM Application Toolkit (STK), the Committee recommends that the CAK develops and publishes guidelines in the adoption of a unified Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) application toolkit with universal access across the platforms of all mobile network operators within one year. view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: We also need to conduct a study on the USSD within a year with a view to lowering the fees. Currently, the fee is Kshs1. They should develop and publish regulations of the USSD by The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view