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Originally published by The Kenyan Wall Streetbusiness
September 14, 2025
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East Africa Pushes to Cut Mobile Roaming Costs but Key Hurdles Remain
EAC is stepping up efforts to make cross-border mobile roaming cheaper, but regulators say persistent gaps could undermine progress..
✨ Key Highlights
The East African Community (EAC) is enhancing efforts to reduce mobile roaming costs, aiming to overhaul its One Network Area (ONA) roaming framework. Despite past successes in lowering call charges, significant issues like uneven affordability, low consumer awareness, and regulatory loopholes persist.
- Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia, the EAC's newest members, have pledged to join the roaming regime.
- Franklin Makokha, of Kenya’s Communications Authority, emphasized that East Africans should be able to move and connect without "exorbitant phone bills."
- Key challenges include SIM boxing fraud, lack of clear fair-usage rules, and concerns from smaller operators about being squeezed out by larger rivals.
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