<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 18px;">Friends,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times, serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times, serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The Universal Service Fund (USF) is a tried, tested and successful idea where it has been implemented well. The intention is noble: to help take (in our case) telecom services to disadvantaged areas where companies may not make as much money as others. The fund is supposed to help fund infrastructure in such areas or offer it as compensation/incentive for those that venture to such
areas.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;">In Canada, for instance, one enjoys similar quality of service and access to telecom services in Nunavut (a vast, sparsely populated territory near the North Pole) as in major urban and business centres as Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, ... and the like.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times, serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In my opinion, it has taken longer than usual to operationalize the fund in Kenya! The recently
appointed team should accelerate the process and hence drive the benefits intended to </span><span style="font-style: italic;">mwananchi</span> in areas that qualify to benefit from the fund.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;">Shukrani.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: times, serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: times, serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: times, serif; font-size:
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