AfricaNews Monitoring Team Credit: itnewsafrica
Kenya is looking at conducting a countrywide sensitization campaign in an effort of increasing the number of Internet users, the country's Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communication Dr Bitange Ndemo has said. "We have to actively increase the number of users to a point operators are able to reduce costs," he said.
Kenya has about 3.5 million internet users, equivalent to 8.6 percent of the Kenyan population.
Among the top African countries with the highest internet users are Egypt with about 12.6 million of its population , followed by Nigeria with 11 million, Morocco 10.3 million, Sudan 3.8 million, and Algeria 3.5 million in that listing.
Service providers have predicted that it could take up to three years before consumers would see a drop in rates.