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Mobile phone sales up 6pc in defiance of excise tax
Blank tape levy is imposed on items that may be used to carry copyright-protected content for private copying payable at the point of entry into Kenya or the point of first manufacture locally. FILE PHOTO | SHUTTERSTOCK
Consumers bought 3.78 million more mobile phones in the six months that ended December 2022 compared to a similar period a year earlier, defying the introduction of excise tax that made the gadgets costlier.
Industry data from the Communications Authority (CA) shows that 63.36 million mobile phones were in use in the period, a 6.3 percent rise from 59.58 million in the six months that ended in December 2021.
