Telecommunications in Kenya: Development and policy issues

Raymond U. Akwule

Telecommunications Policy, vol. 16, issue 7, 603-611

Abstract: The problems faced by developing nations as they try to establish adequate telecommunications networks to meet their development needs have been well publicized. Developing countries are challenged by dual pressures, from within to provide basic telecommunication services to their people and from without to modernize and deregulate their networks. This article examines how Kenya, an East African nation, is coping with the challenges. It reviews the country's telecommunications policies and practices in the three decades since independence and discusses the motivations, problems and promise of telecommunications development in contemporary Kenya.

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