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The MolC (2006: 3) illustrates further that the Government of Kenya first
released the ''Telecommunications and Postal Sector Policy Guidelines" in
1997. These gUidelines paved the way for the enactment of the Kenya
Communications Act of 1998, which repealed the Kenya Posts and
Telecommunications Act and established:
(a) CCK as the Telecommunications, Radio Communications and
Postal Sector Regulator;
(b) National Communications Secretariat (NCS) to serve as a
policy advisory body;
(c) Communications Appeals Tribunal;
(d) Telkom Kenya Limited; and
(e) Postal Corporation of Kenya.
2.2.4.
2.2.4.1
ICT services
Tefephone Lines and tefe-density distribution
By mid 2002, the Computer Society of Kenya contends that Nairobi had
191,202 telephone lines and a tele-density of 7.92 per cent. The coast had
40,184 lines and a tele-density of 1.43 percent, Rift Valley had 35,590 lines
and a tele-density of 0045 percent, and the western region had 6,948 lines
and tele-density of 0.18 percent.
Overall, the Computer Society of Kenya (2003) asserts that the number of
connected lines in Kenya, had grown from 63,000 in 1977, to well over
300,000 in 2003. This could be translated to mean one telephone per 100
people. Although still a dismal figure, this tele-density fares better than
neighbouring countries such as Burundi (0040), Sudan (0.8), Uganda (0.35),
and Tanzania (0045).
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