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<div>I believe Safaricom has an ASP license, and digital broadcast of TV should be covered in that. I blame the Journalist on this one….</div>
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<div name="messageReplySection" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif;">On 6 Nov 2018, 12:08 AM +0300, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>, wrote:<br />
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<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>
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<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>
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<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"><a href="https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/companies/Safaricom-renews-push-for-digital-broadcast-licence/4003102-4837176-15nhi1nz/index.html"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" color="#000000">Read on </font></a></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>
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