Kenya's mobile base grows by 4%.
The country's mobile subscriber base grew by 4%, which
translates into 1m new mobile phone subscribers in the first three
months of 2012. Kenya now has 29.2m mobile subscriptions, compared to
28.08m in December 2011. At the end of the first quarter of 2012,
Kenya's mobile penetration stood at 74%, 3% higher than at the end
of 2011. The country experienced a 4% drop in subscription rates for
fixed land lines, down from 283,546 to 272,101. Internet Internet
Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the subscriptions
increased by 5.5%, from 6.1m to 6.4m during the quarter under review.
Mobile internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. subscriptions continued to dominate with 98.8% of the
total. The number of internet users rose by 4.7%, from 11.3m users to
11.8m.
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