Tanzania, May 26 -- Arusha. The East African Community has launched a series of regional engagements aimed at developing a harmonised mobile roaming framework to support affordable cross-border communication, strengthen regional trade and advance implementation of the bloc's Single Digital Market agenda.

The engagements, taking place in Dar es Salaam from May 25 to 29, 2026, have brought together telecommunications experts, policymakers, heads of communications regulatory authorities and regional partner institutions under the Meeting of the Technical Committee on Telecommunications.

The regional bloc comprises Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

Speaking during the opening s...