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Mobile phone users to get lower call rates as CA slashes charges

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EALA MP Kanini Kega makes phone calls outside Jubilee Party Offices where they staged an unsuccessful coup on April 26, 2023. [Samson Wire, Standard]

The cost of making calls to mobile phones within Kenya is expected to decrease further next year, in a major reprieve for hard-pressed Kenyans.

This is after the communications regulator reduced the amount that operators can charge each other for connecting calls to their network.

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