IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by sections 27 and 84W of the Kenya
Information and Communications Act, the Minister for Information and
Communications, in consultation with the Communications Commission of Kenya,
makes the following Regulations:—
THE KENYA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
(INTERCONNECTION AND PROVISION OF FIXED LINKS, ACCESS
AND FACILITIES) REGULATIONS, 2010
1. Citation.
These Regulations may be cited as the Kenya Information and Communications
(Interconnection and Provision of Fixed Links, Access and Facilities) Regulations,
2010.
2. Interpretation.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
―access‖ means availing facilities or services, to another service provider under
specified conditions, an exclusive or non-exclusive basis, for the purpose of
providing telecommunications services;
―calling line identity‖ means the information generated by a telecommunications
system that identifies the calling number and forwards it through the
telecommunications network to a receiving communications system;
―co-location‖ means accommodation of two or more switches, transmission
equipment, antennas or any other electronic communications equipment in, or on a
single building tower or any other structure for the purpose of interconnecting
communications
networks;
―customer‖ means a user of telecommunications services provided by a
telecommunications service licensee;
―end-to-end connectivity‖ means property that allows all nodes of the network to
send information to all other nodes of the network, and do not require intermediate
network elements to further interpret them;
―facilities acquirer‖ means a licensee who provides network services who has
leased or shares facilities or has requested to lease or share facilities from a