NAIROBI: Safaricom has signed an agreement with Kenya Electricity Transmission Company for use of its power transmimision lines to improve its network at the Coast.
The telecommunications company will lease fibres on Ketraco’s Rabai–Galu and Rabai–Malindi–Garsen–Lamu transmission lines for five years.
Ketraco was granted a network facility provider license by the Communication Authority in 2014 which allows it to lease out fibre to licensed application and content service providers as a way of diversifying the company’s revenue base.
The signing agreement was witnessed by Safaricom’s chief executive Bob Collymore and Ketraco’s acting managing director Fernandes Barasa.