Communications

Liberalisation of Kenya's telecommunications sector started in earnest in 1998, with the enactment of the Kenya communications Act.

In 1998, the former Kenya posts and telecommunications, KPTC, was dissolved. Three entities were established out of the defunct KPTC namely Telcom, Postal corporation of Kenya and the Communications Commission of Kenya, CCK. CCK is the licensing and regulatory authority for telecommunications, radio communications and Postal services.

Now, mobile use is booming - for phonecalls, internet access and payments.

Official statistics:

Telephones - main lines in use: 243,700 (2008)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 16.304 million (2008)

Telephone system: unreliable; little attempt to modernize
domestic: trunks are primarily microwave radio relay; data commonly transferred by a very small aperature terminal (VSAT)
international: country code - 254; The East Africa Marine System (TEAMS) and the SEACOM undersea fiber-optic cable systems; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat
Now, several mobile operators are increasing the mobile network coverage. They also have good offers on handsets including line.

Radio broadcast stations: AM 24, FM 82, shortwave 6 (2008)

Television broadcast stations: 8 (2008)

Internet countrycode: .ke

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