(2) A licensee who fails to utilize a number or address assigned to it by the
Commission within the period prescribed in the assignment may apply, in writing,
to the Commission for the extension of the time within which the licensee ought to
utilize the number or address.
(3) An application for extension of time under paragraph (2) shall include the
reasons for the failure to utilize the number within the time prescribed.
11. Prohibition of generation and use of fictitious numbers and addresses.
A person shall not regenerate or use fictitious numbers or addresses.
12. Delegation of Responsibility.
(1) The Commission may appoint a person or an organization to manage or
maintain an integrated public number or address database.
(2) The Commission, or a person or an organization appointed under paragraph (1)
shall provide non-discriminatory commercial access to the database on terms and
conditions similar to those it offers itself.
(3) The Commission may prescribe, in the Gazette, the manner in which
obligations under this regulation may be undertaken.
13. Offence and penalty.
A licensee who uses numbers or addresses contrary to these Regulations, commits
an offence and is liable, upon conviction, to a fine of not exceeding one million
shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or both.
14. Revocation of Part IX of LN 68 of 2001
Part IX of the Kenya Communications Regulations, 2001, is revoked.
Dated the 14th April, 2010
Samuel Poghisio,
Minister for Information and Communications.