The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has revoked the licenses of service providers and operators.
CA director general David Mugonyi in a gazette notice dated October 11 published the list of 426 service providers whose licenses have been revoked.
The revocation will take effect seven days from the date of the Gazette Notice.
“NOTICE is given pursuant to the provisions of the Kenya Information and Communications Act that the Communications Authority of Kenya shall revoke the licenses of the following service providers/operators within seven (7) days from the date of this Gazette Notice,” the notice reads.
According to Mugonyi, any resources held under any of the revoked licenses shall revert to the Authority upon revocation.
Upon revocation of the licenses listed, the service providers/operators shall not be authorized to operate and provide the services as indicated by the Authority.
CA revokes licenses of service providers
CA has classified the companies whose licenses have been revoked under Application Service Providers (ASP), Network Facility Provider Category (NFP), and Content Service Provider (CSP).
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The licenses of 269 Content Service Providers have been revoked.
Affected companies include Ace Inc Solutions Limited, Acted Engineering Limited, Acumen Communications Limited, B Climax Africa Limited, Ber Lula Limited, Bonke Communications Limited, Connect Media Interactive Company Limited, and Consumer Federation of Kenya among others.
On the other hand, the licenses of 113 Application Service Providers have been revoked. They include Abishai Telecom Limited, Alliance West Technologies Limited, Alphabest Computers & ICT Solutions, Back Track Technologies, Bandwidth Providers East Africa Limited, Batton Contractors Limited, Cable Car Corporation (Kenya) Limited, Central Vehicle Services Limited, and Chear (K) Limited.
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Others include Sunrise Tracking Supreme Truckway Solutions Limited, Suuban Entreprise, Tapifare Kenya Limited, Technology Analysts Limited, Teleken Limited, Tiben Technologies Company Limited, Toppoint Networks Limited, Uvacorp Technologies Limited, Voip Pro (K) Limited, and Webdeli Limited among others.
Radio and TV stations
TV and radio stations that have been affected include Switch TV, Kwese TV, Sky 106.1 FM, Njata FM, Njata TV, Athiani FM, Kihooto FM, and Dala FM.
Others include Mwendani FM, Mwendani, Somal FM, Voice Broadcasting Network FM, Nacex FM, Kulmiye FM, Radio Luhya FM, Cosmopolitan Media Limited, TV Cosmopolitan, and Kyeni TV.
The licenses of Utugi TV, Mwijoyo FM, Bamba TV, Econet Media (K) Ltd, TMN TV, Tusmo FM, Kuscco FM, and Radio Ashe have also been revoked.
The revocations notably come after CA revoked licenses for 27 courier service providers in July.
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