Kenyan mobile phone firms have been ordered to install equipment to allow the telecommunications regulator

   Kenyan mobile phone firms have been ordered to install equipment to allow the telecommunications regulator to monitor activity on their networks.

  The move means that the Communications Authority of Kenya would have the ability to listen to calls, read messages and view financial transactions in the fight against counterfeit phones.
   Director General of the Communications Authority, Francis Wangusi, has dismissed mobile companies' concerns and say that the operators had been involved in discussions about deploying the system since last year.