Telkom Kenya Wants Regulator to Pay Compensation for Vandalism
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Telkom Kenya Ltd., a unit of France Telecom SA, wants the industry regulator to pay it as much as 2 billion shillings ($25 million) in compensation for vandalism, Chief Executive Officer Mickael Ghossein said.
The Nairobi-based company’s fiber-optic links have been cut 342 times in the first 11 months of the year, Ghossein told reporters today in the Kenyan capital. The Communications Commission of Kenya could pay compensation out of a universal service fund that mobile-phone companies finance by contributing 1 percent of their annual revenue, he said.