Barrack

I'm not getting your point. How is it too risky to issue license now? A year before the elections? 

Do you really mean that someone in the political hierarchy has just decided that it may not be strategic to issue licenses to Counties that are not in their 'control'? 

Wouldn't that put into question the independence of the Communication Authority?   

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On 21 Sep 2016, at 1:38 PM, Barrack Otieno via isoc <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

Hi Ali,

My wild guess is that this might be purely from a political and
Internal security standpoint. With what we are witnessing among the
politcal elitein the counties, it might be best to issue this licenses
after the election period.It is too risky now and we must evaluate the
merits and demerits extensively.

Regards

On 9/21/16, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet
<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Excuse my rather off topic question, but its a question I have learnt to
ask when it comes to matters devolution - especially at the trends being
set up by our owners of the *devolved eco-systems*.

Does it come with *additional* levies?

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet <
kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Interesting. How do we interpret Part IX of the County Governments Act?
Section 95:
(1) A County government shall establish mechanisms to facilitate public
communication and access to information in the form of media with the
widest
public outreach in the county, which may include—

(a) television stations;
(b) information communication technology centres;
(c) websites;
(d) community radio stations;
(e) public meetings; and
(f) traditional media.

(2) The county government shall encourage and facilitate other means of
mass communication including traditional media.


Regards,

2016-09-21 12:38 GMT+03:00 Ali Hussein via kictanet <
kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>:

Tony

If that were the case then why doesn't the CA just come out and say it?

Talking about broadcasting being a National Function makes a nonsense of
the current dispensation.

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On 21 Sep 2016, at 9:53 AM, Tony White via kictanet <
kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Ali,

I suspect this has more to do with frequency availability.  On a
200kHz 'channel' spacing, there are only 150 distinct frequencies
available.  If one county is granted a licence, it won't be long
before the other 46 counties would want in on the act.

Of course, frequencies may be re-used based on geographical separation
- but this requires a level of planning skill they maybe don't have?

The 'constitution' excuse is just a convenient way of avoiding the issue
;)

Cheers,
Tony



On 21/09/2016, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
wrote:

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has denied county governments

permits to set up radio stations, stirring a fresh storm between Nairobi
and

the devolved units.


The telecoms sector regulator has rejected 20 county government
applications

seeking FM radio broadcast bands, arguing that broadcasting is not a

devolved function.


Read on:-


http://www.nation.co.ke/news/CA-denies-governors-radio-broad
casting-permits/1056-3389218-80o9cqz/



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