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efficiency and economy in the provision of such services
and to promote research and development in relation
thereto;
(c) encourage private investment in the telecommunication
sector;
(d) promote the provision of international transit services by
persons providing telecommunication services in Kenya;
(e) enable persons providing telecommunication services or
producing telecommunication apparatus in Kenya to compete
effectively in the provision of such services or apparatus
outside Kenya;
Requirement of
licence.
1 of 2009, s.8.
24. (1) No person shall—
(a) operate a telecommunication system; or
(b) provide any telecommunication services
except in accordance with a valid licence granted under
this Act.
(2) A person who contravenes any of the provisions of this
section commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine
not exceeding one million shillings, or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding five years, or to both.
Telecommunication
Licences.
25. (1) The Commission may, upon application in the prescribed
manner and subject to such conditions as it may deem necessary, grant
licences under this section authorising all persons, whether of a specified
class or any particular person to—
(a) operate telecommunication systems; or
(b) provide telecommunication services,
of such description as may be specified in the licence.
(2) A licence granted under subsection (2) (a) may authorise—
(a) the provision, by means of any telecommunication system to
which the licence relates, of any telecommunication services
of a description specified in the licence; and
(b) the connection to any telecommunication system to which
the licence relates of—