[1] From 1948 to 1977, postal service in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda was provided by the East African Posts and Telecommunications Corporation.
The dissolution of the first East African Community since that era forced Kenya to establish its own monopoly communications company, KPTC.
[1] New government economic policies in the mid 1990s were developed and adopted, supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
In 2003, years after the division of KPTC, CCK Board Chairman Peter Kariuki noted the total number of people remaining to be connected to telephone service in Kenya stood at 7 million.
Emerging private mobile telephone companies provide service capacity, but remained too expensive for many citizens.