Win for Safaricom in national roaming fees tussle

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In this file picture, engineers assemble the base transmission station at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University in Bondo.

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The rates telcos charge rival operators to connect their subscribers in areas where they lack service coverage in Kenya should be negotiated commercially, a study by the communications regulator has shown, handing a boost to Safaricom which has the largest network spread countrywide, and tower operators.

This concept known as national roaming or network roaming occurs when traffic from one operator’s subscriber is carried and routed on another operator’s network.

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