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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><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); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">IN SUMMARY</font></p><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><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="2" face="Tahoma">Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) said it had expanded the membership of the Universal Service Advisory Council (USAC) to nine from six to include representatives of the telcos, broadcasters and postal operators.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">The move ends a three-year standoff that had stalled the fund, which was to receive 0.5 per cent of revenues from firms regulated by the CCK like Nation Media, Safaricom and Postal Corporation of Kenya.</font></li></ul></div><div><br></div><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Regulator-allows-telcos-to-join-fund-after-3-year-tussle-/-/539550/1911224/-/item/1/-/74b9ja/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Regulator-allows-telcos-to-join-fund-after-3-year-tussle-/-/539550/1911224/-/item/1/-/74b9ja/-/index.html</a></font> </div></body>
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