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Mobile firms to pay millions for new ICT fund

Residents of Dukana in Marsabit search for mobile phone network on a hill. About 1,120 sub-locations out of 7,149 in the country have no access to basic communication services. Photo/File

The communications industry has appointed six members to a council paving the way for players to begin paying 0.5 per cent of their revenue to help people in marginal areas access services.

This comes at a time when the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has forwarded a policy document to the Information ministry to back the Universal Access Fund (UAF).

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