Kenya's four mobile networks have received police summons for their CEO's to be questioned by the Criminal Investigations Department.
In a joint statement, all four networks confirmed that they had received the summons, which relates to the networks performance at registering SIM cards against their users identity.
According to the statement, it was the telecoms regulator that asked the police to investigate the phone companies for not complying with the SIM registration regulations.
The networks stated that they have complied, and gone beyond, the regulations and that over 30 million phone users have been registered since the start of this year.
They added that they expressed their "extreme displeasure" as the way the matter had been handled.
There have been allegations that unregistered SIM cards were used by the terrorists during the Westgate shopping centre attack, although that hasn't been confirmed yet. Several dealers have also been prosecuted for selling unregistered SIM cards.
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