Kenya planned to force telecoms operators to share key infrastructure to reduce sabotage sparked by intense rivalry among competitors, a government official said yesterday. Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary in Kenya’s ministry of information and communication cited frequent cuts to fibre optic cables, which trigger outages, hamper business operations and unnerve investors, as a reason. “We will have to find ways of forcing sharing of the infrastructure,” Ndemo said. “By sharing… there will be less cutting because there is no need to try to be competitive by chopping a rival’s cable.” Read More
