<div dir="auto">clearly consumer rights are not a priority <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">_________________________<br>Sent from my mobile</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 29 Jan 2022, 13:05 Mwendwa Kivuva via KICTANet, <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Telecommunications operators have been left off the hook.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div>The Kenya Information and Communication (Amendment) Bill required the telcos, including Safaricom, Airtel Kenya and Telkom Kenya, to compensate their callers Sh10 for every dropped call.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Customers were to be compensated for a maximum of three dropped calls per day for up to Sh30.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Bill which was introduced in Parliament in 2020 lapsed this week. It was to compel mobile telephony firms to improve the quality and availability of calls on their networks.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The proposed law aimed at shielding millions of mobile phone clients from poor services related to network outages, including lack of Internet connections.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A Bill expires or lapses when MPs fail to debate it and it is not reviewed by a parliamentary committee one year after being tabled in the House.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Callers are currently not compensated for call outages, a legal gap that has shielded telcos grappling with network hitches in different parts of the country.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Read more ... <a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/corporate/industry/safaricom-airtel-spared-paying-customers-for-network-outages-3696558%3fview=htmlamp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/corporate/industry/safaricom-airtel-spared-paying-customers-for-network-outages-3696558%3fview=htmlamp</a></div></div>
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