[kictanet] proposed new license fees for Application/Content Service Providers

[Alex Gakuru]

One would have supposed that kictanet members privy to
this CCK Board decision ought to have have raised
these impossibly large, thus SME exclusionist, fees
for open discussions???
   

--- Marcel Werner <marcelcwerner at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Attention Colleagues,
> 
> Are you aware that the Communications Commission of
> Kenya has issued an
> important consultative document on the proposed
> Unified License framework?
> Comments are welcomed by CCK, due by deadline of 29
> February 2008 at close
> of business.
> 
> The market segments categorised in the CCK paper
> Applications Service
> Providers (ASPs) and Content Service Providers (CSP)
> (include all Value
> Added Service (VAS) Providers and Web-based Public
> Commercial Information
> Service Providers can provide economic opportunities
> to Micro and Small
> Enterprises (SME) as well as Small and Medium Sized
> companies (MSE). Note
> that all these services proposedly attract a
> KES100,000 registration fee +
> KES100,000 or 0.5% of turn-over charge. That will
> keep many players out of
> the market. How many higher education graduates are
> working to create a
> niche for themselves in the market?  They should be
> encouraged and
> supported!
> 
> 
> The new regulatory framework should not place any
> obstacles to new investors
> and market entrants, especially not to SME's.
> Therefore, the
> proposedlicense fees for these two categories should
> be replaced by a
> general
> license. Normally, such licensees does not pay
> license fees but register
> with the regulatory body and subsequently receive a
> certificate endorsing
> their operations in the sector.
> 
> MARCEL WERNER
> Kenya ICT Federation
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