<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">L</span><font face="georgia, serif">isters</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">What gives? 3 years to get a license? What is going on?</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Safaricom says it will seek answers from the telecoms regulator over the three-year delay in issuance of its digital broadcast licence, chief executive Bob Collymore has said.<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5rem 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" color="#000000">The telco is seeking to venture into commercial free-to-air television services as part of triple-play offering plan–TV, internet and fixed line telephone services – to homes.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5rem 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/companies/Safaricom-renews-push-for-digital-broadcast-licence/4003102-4837176-15nhi1nz/index.html">Read on </a></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5rem 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">I thought Kenya adopted a </font><a href="https://www.bowmanslaw.com/insights/technology-media-and-telecommunications/telecom-regulation-kenya-introduces-a-unified-licensing-framework/" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Unified License Regime</a> <font face="georgia, serif">way back when... What happened to this? </font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5rem 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Can the regulator please inform Kenyans what exactly is holding up Safaricom's license? I'm not holding brief for Safaricom but I think this is a public interest issue. </font></p></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>AHK & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>T<font size="2">el: +254 713 60<font size="2">1113</font></font><br></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">

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