[kictanet] Fw: [ISOC_KE] allAfrica.com: Kenya: Poghisio Appoints USF Board Members

[McTim]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:57 AM, stephen Mutoro <smutoro at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Walu,
> Sorry to intercept your communication. This is one other issue (USF) that
> MOIC team will never succeed. How can you in all fairness ask for say up to
> Sh500M p.a from an MSP/MNO and then they have no representation on USF
> Board and therefore no say on how "their" money is used?
>


Once it is paid in to the fund, it is USF money.  It would be like saying
that after Safaricom pays taxes it should be able to say how those taxes
get spent!

Why would a consumer group want to put the fox in charge of the henhouse?



> The easier part is to gazette the names, the harder part is to get money
> into the "Fund". Days when people who own no means of production, in
> whatever sector, purporting to set radical rules are long gone.
>

Universal Service is not a radical rule, it has been THE dominant paradigm
amongst telecom regulators globally for decades.



>  Regrettably, again, if an MSP/MNO pays such an mount annually, it ups its
> cost of doing business. Who eventually shoulders such costs?? You and I as
> consumers.
>


correct, and if telecom services reach 100% of the population, then the
entire citizenry benefits, including consumers.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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