Somalia Plans Rules, Taxes for Mobile-Phone Operators

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Somalia will start governing its untaxed and unregulated telecommunications industry to boost growth and investment, said Information, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Abdulkareem Jama.

The government has drafted rules for managing mobile-phone frequencies, phone numbers and interconnection agreements, a system in which telecommunications operators carry cross-network traffic, Jama told reporters today in Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya.