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<p class="newstype" style="margin-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: url(http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/image/view/-/539614/data/85/-/10r7mmuz/-/ico_file.png); font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><font size="3">IN SUMMARY</font></p><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; "><ul style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><font size="3">The President’s intervention, which amounts to political meddling in the work of an independent state organ, has for the second time in as many years stopped the industry regulator, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), from lowering the Mobile Termination Rate (MTR).</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><font size="3">MTR is the price that operators pay each other for calls terminating in their networks from outside and ultimately determines call costs.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><font size="3">Mr Kibaki, who has been acting on behalf of Safaricom and Telkom Kenya, issued the directive in a letter to Information permanent secretary Bitange Ndemo, stating that there should be no change in the MTR until a fresh study of the same is carried out.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><font size="3">Prime Minister Raila Odinga, jumped into the CCK’s regulatory mandate with a similar directive on behalf of yet another big business – Royal Media Services.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><font size="3">Mr Odinga wrote to the CCK director-general asking him to withdraw the notice he had published of intention to revoke frequencies that the media house is accused of acquiring irregularly.</font></li></ul><div><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Kibaki+Raila+meddling+stalls+CCK+actions+/-/539546/1489216/-/bay1qg/-/index.html">http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Kibaki+Raila+meddling+stalls+CCK+actions+/-/539546/1489216/-/bay1qg/-/index.html</a>
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