<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Dear Rachel</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Further to Steve's response on the issue of USF utilization and collaboration with Telcos I have some queries:-</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">According to Steve, and I quote:-</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:1.5em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;color:rgb(89,89,89);background-color:rgb(232,235,236);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(47,85,151)"><font face="georgia, serif"><b></b></font></span></p><font face="georgia, serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><b>​1. ​</b></div><b>As the largest contributors to the USF Fund, telecommunication service providers including Safaricom do not have a say as to how the funds are utilised – yet we have the best information as to the constraints that impede rollout of network in marginal areas and the subsidy from the USF facilitates in closing the capital challenge.</b></font><p></p><div class="gmail_default"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:justify"><b><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">In fact, telecommunications providers had requested for representation in the USAC and had received promises that this would be done, but unfortunately the council does not have any operator representation.</font></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:justify"><b><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:justify"><b><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">End quote.</font></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(47,85,151);text-align:justify"><b><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">It would be great for us to understand the rationale against providing the Telcos representation on the USAC. I would also like to request the community to be made to understand why the fund is still under-utilised. As per your last responses on the list you mentioned that out of 4.8b the fund had only utilised 1.5b? yet large swathes of counties are still going without 3G connectivity or in some cases no connectivity at all.</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">2. With the support of the Telcos could we map out using InfoGraphics the areas that need most attention in the country?</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Hussein & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2">

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