Title: Tax cuts to boost Kenya broadband
Source: BBC News
Publisher: BBC
Date published: 12/06/2009
Date accessed: 22/06/2009
Type of information: Article
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
Tax cuts and incentives have been announced in Kenya intended to boost broadband and mobile take-up as a new fibre optic cable is launched.

Kenya's Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta cut the 16% VAT on new phone handsets.

He also allowed internet providers to offset the cost of purchasing new fibre optic bandwidth for 20 years.