<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Grace,Listers,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>The issue is quite straight forward.USAC is advisory to CAK. Do the operators wish to start advising the Regulator?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>The fund is a
LEVY.It is not a CSR. Check your power bill and see how many levies are included !</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>John Kariuki</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, 4 August 2014, 2:57, Grace
Githaiga via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2225340156">
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0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><ul style="margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.5em;font-size:11px;"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;">Mobile operators query directive for sector to remit nearly Sh2bn to the Universal Service Advisory Council (USAC) – an agency formed by the government to manage the funds.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;">The firms have raised concerns over a lack of representation on the Universal Service Fund (USF), financial governance and accountability of the fund to the contributors.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;">The USF levy became effective last July and is managed by an independent committee comprising of appointees of the ICT secretary.</li></ul></div><div><br></div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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