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Kenya:
Telcos Told They Are Not Above the Law
The Star, 10 October 2013
THE Communications Commission of Kenya has dismissed claims by the four mobile telecom executives that they have fully complied with Sim card registration rules that bars the use… Read more »
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Kenya:
Regulator to Go for Phone Licences in SIM War
Capital FM, 9 October 2013
Mobile phone operators risk losing their licenses if they fail to comply with the law that requires them to register all active SIM cards. Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK)… Read more »
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Kenya:
Mobile CEOs Reject Blame for Westgate Attack
The Star, 9 October 2013
THE chief executives of Kenya's four mobile phone companies yesterday denied that unregistered sim cards are in use on their networks. Read more »
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Kenya:
Westgate Is Jubilee's Watergate Scandal
The Star, 9 October 2013
Westgate is gliding into a Watergate. The slide could rob the Jubilee regime of its innocence during the morning of its tenure. The Westgate backlash is likely if the Government… Read more »
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Kenya:
Scrap Westgate Probes Except the Presidential
The Star, 9 October 2013
KENYA loves public enquiries. At the end, not much happens. The report is either buried, or it is released but no action is taken. The one great exception was the Waki Commission… Read more »
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Kenya:
All Active SIMs Registered, Say Phone Firm Bosses
Capital FM, 8 October 2013
Chief Executives of mobile phone companies have denied claims that there are active SIM cards that are unregistered on their networks. The executives confirmed that they had… Read more »
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Kenya:
Phone Firms Deny Flouting Law On SIM Cards
Capital FM, 8 October 2013
Chief executives of mobile phone companies insist they are in full compliance with the law that requires them to register all active SIM cards. Read more »
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Kenya:
Mobile Firms CEOs Face Arrest Over SIM Cards
The Star, 8 October 2013
THE Communications Commission of Kenya has threatened to arrest the chief executives of the four mobile phone companies in the country for allowing unregistered SIM cards to… Read more »
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Kenya:
Govt to Prosecute Mobile Phone Companies Who Sell Pre-Activated SIM Cards
Capital FM, 8 October 2013
Cabinet Secretary for Information and Technology, Fred Matiangi said, most unregistered SIM cards have been used to undertake criminal activities like asking for kidnapping ransom. Read more »
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Kenya:
Kenya Mobile Operators Displeased With CCK's Reaction On Unregistered SIM Cards
CIO, 8 October 2013
CEOs of the four mobile operators licensed by the Communication Commission of Kenya, received communication from the Criminal Investigation Department of the Kenya Police Service… Read more »
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Kenya:
Experts Fear No Prosecutions in Mall Attack
VOA, 8 October 2013
Kenyan security forces have made dozens of arrests and intensified their search for more suspects who they believe were behind the Westgate mall terror attack on September 21. This… Read more »
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Kenya:
CCK in the Midst of Cracking Down Unregistered SIM Cards
CIO, 7 October 2013
The Kenyan Government promulgated regulations that address registration of Subscribers of Telecommunication Services on the 28th of December in 2012. These regulations came into… Read more »
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Kenya:
Inconvenient Truths for Kenya After Westgate Attack
African Arguments, 7 October 2013
Two weeks after Al-Shabaab militants murdered over 60 shoppers and diners and laid waste to one of Nairobi's smartest malls, a reckoning has begun: how could an attack of such… Read more »