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

[John Walubengo]

Alex,

it's actually the other way round.  From a strict
government perspective - CCK Board decisions or
deliberations do NOT ofcourse need KICTAnet endorsement.
Howevever I do get your drift, they (CCK Board) are free to
harvest as much intelligence as they want from KICTAnet and
other sources...which i think they were doing from their
call for comments on their website and i think I saw the
same in the press a while back.

Maybe what they needed was to commission a discussion
thread around the issue for a much better incisive and
interactive insight....

walu. 

--- Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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