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Several competing national fibre backbones are being rolled out, and various international submarine fibre optic cables, expected to launch from 2009, will bring bandwidth prices down and open the Internet up to the mass market.
Convergence is ever-present in this dynamic and fast growing market, with VoIP enabling cheaper calls through new international gateways, the introduction of 3G mobile services catapulting the mobile operators into the virtually untapped broadband sector, and mobile banking services empowering the largely un-banked population
By the end of 2008, Kenya had more than 15.0 million mobile subscribers, with a mobile penetration rate of 39 percent. The subscriber base is expected to rise to 29.28 million, or 66.7 percent penetration, by year-end 2013.
Pyramid forecasts that total revenue of Kenya’s telecom market will grow by 42 percent from $1.39 billion in 2008 to $1.98 billion by 2013. Among these, 78 percent of the total revenue to be generated by the mobile sector; says the report.
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