The document discusses opportunities and challenges in the telecommunications sector for contractors, vendors, and technical personnel. It outlines licensing procedures and fees. Compliance reporting involves annual forms and regional offices. Relationship entities include NEMA, municipalities, NCA, KCAA, and others. Opportunities identified are new government partnerships, USF activation, e-government initiatives, consumer awareness, and innovation. Challenges include unlicensed practitioners, unfair competition, lack of information, and vandalism. The way forward proposes professionalism, limiting contracts to licensed providers, quality of service, and additional forums. It concludes there is a need for partnerships, proactive licensing, enhanced inspections, and routing out illegal entities.

1. Opportunities and Challenges
Telecommunications forum for contractors, vendors
and technical personnel

2. Licensing & Compliance
The procedures are as outlined in the application form
and its cost is as follows
1. Application – 1000
2. Annual license fee – 3000
3. Type Approval – as per product
4. Technical personnel – Annual fee – 500
5. Vendors – zero rated

3. Compliance Reporting
What are the challenges
• Forms – on website as reviewed
• Distance – regional offices
• Periodicity – annually

4. Relationship with other
Government entities
Which are the entities
Nema
Municipalities
NCA
KCAA
OTHERS

5. Opportunities
The forum identified the following opportunities
1. New frontiers with government
2. The activation of the USF
3. Increased e-government initiatives
4. Consumer awareness
5. The innovation in place. (change with us)

6. Challenges
The subsector has identified the following as the
main challenges
• Quack practitioners
• Unfair competition
• Lack of information
• Vandalism

7. Way forward
The forum proposes as follows;
1. Professionalism and membership to be upheld
– IEEE / CA-TP
2. The contracts to be limited to the licensed
service providers only.
3. Insist on quality of service and neatness.

8. Way forward
It is further stated as follows;
a. Hold another forum
b. Invitation and participation to forums

9. Conclusion
It is concluded as follows:
a. There is need for Partnerships
b. Licensing need to be proactive
c. Inspections to be enhanced
d. Enforcement to route out illegal entities
e. Others

10. TEC AND TP OPPORTUNITIES AND
CHALLENGES- 2015 ICT WEEK
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11. OPPORTUNITIES
• The Telecom contractor
license covers for the
sale of ICT equipment
(Vendor Licence)

12. OPPORTUNITIES cont..
• County governments ICT
projects:
① Supply of ICT equipment
e.g. equipping computer
labs
② Design and construction of
LAN and Wide Area
Networks among others

13. RELATIONS WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES – cont…
National Construction Authority (NCA)
Mandated to streamline, overhaul and regulate
the construction industry.
The Authority is working on a MoU to guide the
relationship with NCA and address the concerns
of our licensees
The challenge of multiple licensing by different
government agencies is a concern that the
Authority is looking at to find solutions

14. RELATIONS WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES – cont…
County Governments
 Hosted the governors forum to sensitize
them on the importance of corporation.
 Working closely with county governments
to improve working conditions of licensees
 Kikao Kikuu forums

15. RELATIONS WITH OTHER
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
NEMA
FUNCTIONS:
• Promote integration of environmental
considerations in plans and projects
• Perform EIAs
 CA has an MoU with NEMA
that governs our working
relationships.
 Concerns about the safety of
populations residing near ICT
installations is being monitored