State plans own calls network to cut airtime costs

Workers lay fibre-optic cable in Nyeri town on August 18, 2020.

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The government plans to deploy an internal communication platform, JamboTel, to ease information flow among its agencies and departments and reduce costs, potentially cutting an important revenue stream for telecommunication firms in the country.

The National Treasury has disclosed that the rollout will happen once the State completes laying its backbone fibre optic cable, which is expected to link every public institution and office to the internet.

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