Kenya Planing New Bill to Regulate over the top services

The Kenyan government is currently working on a bill that will bring over the top services such as Whatsapp and Facebook under regulation.

This is after telecom operators complained of unfair playing field.

Joe Mucheru, the ICT secretary said the new National ICT Sector Policy Guidelines will also dictate the practices within which mobile virtual network service operators will operate.

Three working groups at the ministry will oversee infrastructure issues, new emerging issues as well as applications and content.

Mr Mucheru at a briefing yesterday said they want the final draft complete by June.