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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Any reactions from Bwana Ndemo, who seems to have received one of the letters?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Is this also the reason why Airtel changed their rates to subscribers from 1 shilling (permanent!! - the word has earned new meaning) back to ksh 3 per minute? No one answered this question when I asked a while back. Airtel,
why the change?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">As stakeholders, should we accept "regulatory capture" in this industry?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Edith</font> </div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> kictanet [kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Grace Githaiga [ggithaiga@hotmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 29, 2012 12:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Edith Adera<br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [kictanet] Kibaki, Raila meddling stalls CCK actions<br>
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<font size="3">IN SUMMARY</font></p>
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<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="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">
<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>
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<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
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<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>
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<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>
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