Kenya - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts

Table of Contents

• 1. Key Statistics
• 2. Telecommunications Market
  • 2.1 Overview of Kenya' s telecom market
• 3. Regulatory Environment
  • 3.1 Kenya Communications Act 1998
  • 3.2 Revised Telecommunications Market Structure 2004
  • 3.3 New ICT Bill, Universal Access Fund
  • 3.4 Regulatory authority
    • 3.4.1 Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK)
  • 3.5 Tariff regulation
  • 3.6 Foreign ownership
  • 3.7 Number portability (NP)
  • 3.8 Telecom sector liberalisation in Kenya
    • 3.8.1 Regional telecom licences
    • 3.8.2 Second national operator licensing
    • 3.8.3 International gateway licences
    • 3.8.4 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony
    • 3.8.5 BPO subsidies
    • 3.8.6 New licensing regime 2008
• 4. Fixed Network Operators in Kenya
  • 4.1 Telkom Kenya Ltd (Orange Kenya)
    • 4.1.1 Fixed-line statistics
    • 4.1.2 Network infrastructure
    • 4.1.3 Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
    • 4.1.4 Tariffs
    • 4.1.5 Privatisation
  • 4.2 Fixed-wireless operators
  • 4.3 Kenya Data Networks (KDN)
  • 4.4 Jamii Telecom
  • 4.5 AccessKenya
• 5. Telecommunications Infrastructure
  • 5.1 National fibre backbone infrastructure
    • 5.1.1 Telkom Kenya
    • 5.1.2 KDN
    • 5.1.3 Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC)
    • 5.1.4 Kenya Pipeline Corporation (KPC)
  • 5.2 International infrastructure
    • 5.2.1 Submarine cables
• 6. Internet Market
  • 6.1 Overview
    • 6.1.1 Internet statistics
  • 6.2 Public Internet access locations
    • 6.2.1 Digital Villages
  • 6.3 Internet backbone infrastructure
    • 6.3.1 Telkom Kenya, JamboNet
    • 6.3.2 Additional international data carrier licences 2005
    • 6.3.3 Public data network operators (PDNOs)
  • 6.4 Kenya Internet exchange point
  • 6.5 Kenya Network Information Centre (KENIC)
  • 6.6 ISP market
    • 6.6.1 Africa Online Kenya
    • 6.6.2 UUNet Kenya
    • 6.6.3 Wananchi Online, ISP Kenya
    • 6.6.4 Swift Global
    • 6.6.5 AccessKenya
    • 6.6.6 InterConnect, Internet Solutions Kenya
    • 6.6.7 Orange Kenya (Telkom)
• 7. Broadband Market
  • 7.1 Overview
  • 7.2 VSAT
  • 7.3 Leased lines
  • 7.4 Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
    • 7.4.1 ADSL2
  • 7.5 Wireless broadband
    • 7.5.1 WiFi
    • 7.5.2 WiMAX
    • 7.5.3 Mobile data services
  • 7.6 Broadband via satellite
• 8. Convergence
  • 8.1 VoIP telephony
    • 8.1.1 New VoIP guidelines 2005
    • 8.1.2 VoIP licences 2006
  • 8.2 Triple play
  • 8.3 Digital TV
  • 8.4 IPTV
• 9. Mobile Communications
  • 9.1 Overview of Kenya' s mobile market
    • 9.1.1 Mobile statistics
  • 9.2 Regulatory issues
    • 9.2.1 Interconnection
    • 9.2.2 International gateways
    • 9.2.3 Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
    • 9.2.4 Quality of Service (QoS) control
    • 9.2.5 Registration of subscriber details
  • 9.3 Major mobile operators
    • 9.3.1 Safaricom Ltd
    • 9.3.2 Zain Kenya (formerly Celtel, KenCell)
    • 9.3.3 Essar Telecom Kenya (Yu, formerly Econet)
    • 9.3.4 Orange Kenya (Telkom Kenya)
  • 9.4 Mobile voice services
    • 9.4.1 Prepaid cards
    • 9.4.2 Special regional tariffs
    • 9.4.3 International roaming
    • 9.4.4 VoIP
    • 9.4.5 Flashback
    • 9.4.6 GSM community phones
    • 9.4.7 Price war since 2008
    • 9.4.8 Satellite mobile
  • 9.5 Mobile data services
    • 9.5.1 Short Message Service (SMS)
    • 9.5.2 Multimedia Messaging (MMS)
    • 9.5.3 GPRS and EDGE
    • 9.5.4 BlackBerry
    • 9.5.5 3G
    • 9.5.6 M-payment, m-banking
    • 9.5.7 Mobile TV
• 10. Forecasts
  • 10.1 Forecast mobile subscribers - 2010; 2015
• 11. Glossary of Abbreviations

TABLES:

• Table 1 - Country statistics Kenya - 2009
• Table 2 - Fixed-line statistics - 2008
• Table 3 - Internet provider statistics - 2008
• Table 4 - Internet user statistics - 2008
• Table 5 - Mobile statistics - 2008
• Table 6 - National telecommunications authority
• Table 7 - Fixed lines in service and annual change - 1995 - 2008
• Table 8 - Internet users and penetration rate - 1996 - 2008
• Table 9 - KIXP traffic - 2004 - 2008
• Table 10 - AccessKenya corporate leased-line customers - 2006 - 2008
• Table 11 - Mobile subscribers and penetration rate - 1996 - 2008
• Table 12 - Mobile operators, subscribers and annual change - 2008
• Table 13 - Safaricom monthly ARPU - 2007 - 2009
• Table 14 - Zain Kenya monthly ARPU - 2006 - 2009
• Table 15 - Zain Kenya GPRS/EDGE pricing - 2009
• Table 16 - Forecast mobile subscribers - 2010; 2015

EXHIBITS:

• Exhibit 1 - The CCK coup of 2005
• Exhibit 2 - International gateway licences fees
• Exhibit 3 - Texting elephants
• Exhibit 4 - Job offers by SMS