Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation

Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation

Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC) was a government company that provided telecommunication and postal services across Kenya.

History

From 1948 to 1977, postal service in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda was provided by the East African Posts and Telecommunications Corporation. The dissolution of the first East African Community since that era forced Kenya to establish its own monopoly communications company, KPTC.

New government economic policies in the mid 1990s were developed and adopted, supported by the IMF and World Bank. Recommendations of that process included separation of the postal and telecommunication operations. An IMF loan arrangement also depended on privatisation of KPTC, but IMF suspended this in July 1997 over reported concerns of government corruption.

Controversy over IMF telecommunications privatisation policies continued. KPTC's Board of Directors was terminated by the Kenyan government in February 1999 prior to an IMF visit to the country.

In 1999, the corporation was broken up into three entities:

# Telkom Kenya providing telecommunications services,
# Postal Corporation of Kenya to offer postal services,
# Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), a separate national regulatory authority.

ervice provision and quality

Telephone service quality in Kenya remained problematic at times. Official waiting lists of customers seeking telephone service increased almost fourfold to almost 79 000 between 1977 and 1983, but had been reduced to less than 50 000 by 1986. [cite web | title=Business America, "Kenya's telecommunications market is opening up to U.S. suppliers", 24 October 1998 | url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1052/is_n22_v109/ai_6809714 | accessmonthday=March 16 | accessyear=2006 ] These waiting lists only applied to areas where telephone service is available.

In 2003, years after the division of KPTC, CCK Board Chairman Peter Kariuki noted the total number of people remaining to be connected to telephone service in Kenya stood at 7 million. Emerging private mobile telephone companies provide service capacity, but remained too expensive for many citizens. [cite web | title=Peter Kariuki, CCK speech, CTO Workshop on Telecommunications Competition and Privatisation, 5 March 2003 | url=http://www.cck.go.ke/html/speech.asp?speechid=9 | accessmonthday=March 16 | accessyear=2006 ]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1052/is_n22_v109/ai_6809714 Business America: Kenya's telecommunications market is opening up to U.S. suppliers] 24 October 1988
* [http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/country_profiles/kenya/kenypol.htm UNECA/NICI policy on Kenya telecommunications]
* [http://www.nationaudio.com/News/EastAfrican/250299/Regional/Regional12.html The East African, "KPTC Directors Axed in New Shake-up"] week of 25 February 1999


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