While in town allow me to illustrate how we engage on the diverse array of consumers issues --- [Business Daily] New tax jolts mobile phone pricing By Okuttah Mark March 12, 2010 ... Under the proposed regulations, home and industrial microwave owners and mobile handsets owners will be required to pay Sh3,000 for every microwave or a GSM, CDMA or UTMs enabled mobile phone they own to the board. For telecommunications players, the commercial implications are dire. Mr Alex Gakuru, the chairman of ICT consumer association of Kenya, terms the move ill advised, saying it would only stifle the mobile penetration in the country and widen the digital gap. “We have handsets going for Sh2, 000 currently in the market, why should a government organ want to levy a fee higher than the price of the commodity?” he asked. ... http://tinyurl.com/yzz3uol ---