In accordance with the provisions of the Kenya Communications Act 1998, Sections 35 & 36, of the Laws of Kenya, all radio communication equipment must be owned and/or operated under a licence issued by CCK. The licence must be kept in force at all times by regular payment of the prescribed licence fees.
This category includes services such as low/medium/high capacity fixed telecommunications links, studio to transmitter links, fixed wireless access, cellular mobile and paging.

• The applicant files an application with the Commission by completing the prescribed RF3 form, detailing all the technical and operating data of the proposed equipment. A detailed network lay out should be attached to the application.
• Duly completed RF3 form together with any additional attachments should be returned to CCK together with a non-refundable application fee of KShs. 1,000.
• CCK examines the application in line with the national and ITU tables of frequency allocations in regard to the proposed frequency band and technical parameters. In case of favorable findings, CCK carries out technical analysis and consequently assigns suitable frequencies as appropriate and communicates the same to the applicant, together with relevant conditions of the frequency assignment. The applicant is also advised to remit the requisite frequency licence fee as per the frequency fee schedule
• At the same time, CCK checks whether the proposed equipment has been type approved/type accepted. If it hasn’t, the applicant is requested to seek type approval/acceptance from the Engineering Standards unit of the Commission (type approval involves checking the technical and operating parameters of the equipment against CCK’s specifications for that category of equipment to ensure the equipment’s technical acceptability)
• A frequency licence is issued once type approval/acceptance for proposed equipment is received and upon payment of the frequency licence fee
• The period of validity of a frequency licence is one year and must be renewed at the expiry of the period by returning to CCK the expired licence with the requisite renewal fee

The frequency fee is charged as per the Kenya Communications Regulation, 2001 attached as Annex 1 of this document