<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB"><p><font face="Arial" size="2">By Macharia kamau, <br></font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">A
presidential directive freezing the reduction of mobile termination
rates (MTRs) has rendered irrelevant a prime ministerial task force set
up to establish how reduced MTRs affect the economy and <a style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0.2em dotted rgb(43, 101, 176); padding-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(43, 101, 176); background-color: transparent;" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000036808&cid=14&#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow"><span id="itxthook0w0" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(43, 101, 176);">mobile</span><span id="itxthook0w1" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(43, 101, 176);"> </span><nobr style="color: rgb(43, 101, 176);" id="itxthook0w2nobr" class="itxtrst itxtrstnobr itxthooknobr"><span id="itxthook0w2" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan
itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">phone</span></nobr></a> operators.</font></p></span><br>By the Standard @<br>http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000036808&cid=14&<br>~~~~~~~~<br>I get worried when I read headlines like these. Is it really true or a case of being misquoted. I have a big problem when a Regulator receives explicit instructions from Statehouse=President? particularly when we have been successfull in pretending that the Regulator is truly independent. <br><br>In the new constitutional dispensation, this can quite backfire and leave more egg on Statehouse..<br>walu.<br><br></td></tr></table>