Research and Markets: Kenya - Key Statistics, Regulatory & Fixed-Line Telecoms Overviews

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DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/34a800/kenya_key_statis) has
announced the addition of the "Kenya - Key Statistics, Regulatory & Fixed-Line
Telecoms Overviews" report to their offering.

Kenya's telecommunications and broadband market is set for a revolution with the
arrival of the first ever fibre optic international submarine cable to the
country's shores in mid-2009, with at least two more expected to go live by
2010. Bandwidth prices had already fallen significantly following the
liberalisation of international gateway and national backbone network provision
in 2005, but they may now fall by more than 90% again, enabling cheaper tariffs
for telephone calls and broadband Internet access. The country's incumbent
fixed-line telco, Telkom Kenya, is revamping its infrastructure and services
with fresh capital from its new majority shareholder, France Telecom, and it has
also re-entered the mobile market. Several competitors such as Kenya Data
Networks (KDN) are rolling out national fibre backbone networks to take the new
bandwidth and services to population centres across the country. A simplified
and converged licensing regime introduced in 2008 has lowered barriers to market
entry and increased competition by allowing operators to offer any kind of
service in a technology- and service-neutral regulatory framework.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Synopsis
2. Key statistics
3. Telecommunications market
4. Regulatory environment
5. Telecom sector liberalisation in Kenya
6. Fixed network operators in Kenya
7. National fibre backbone infrastructure
8. International infrastructure
9. Related reports

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http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/34a800/kenya_key_statis

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