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Northbridge Consulting and Training  ·  USP Practitioner Series
USP Fund and RONR:
Know What You Are Paying For
A one-day practitioner insight session for regulatory, finance, product, and costing teams inside licensed telco operators in Malaysia.
"Accurate USP contribution depends on four functions working in alignment. When any one of them breaks down, the company overpays, and the error goes undetected until MCMC asks."
1
Day Session
5
Practitioner Sessions
RM 5,920
Per Participant
HRD Corp
Claimable
Why This Session Exists
Most companies are paying 6% on a number nobody has properly examined.
Every licensed telco operator and service provider in Malaysia is required to contribute 6% of its determined or weighted net revenue to the USP Fund each year. The return of net revenue, together with audited financial statements for the preceding calendar year, must be submitted to MCMC by 30 June. The obligation is clear. What sits underneath it is not.
Net revenue is not a single clean number. A service offering is rarely a single licensable activity. It is a bundle. Bandwidth sits alongside hardware, wiring, software, and support. Only the licensable component is subject to contribution. When companies fail to separate what is licensable from what is not, the 6% is applied to a bloated base, and the overpayment compounds quietly, year after year, until someone looks closely enough to find it.
And the 30 June deadline does not wait. When the declaration is wrong, or when the auditor queries the segregation and the regulatory team cannot defend it in time, the submission is delayed, queries remain open, and the company is exposed.

"The error is rarely discovered in isolation. It surfaces when MCMC queries the revenue pattern, when the auditor cannot reconcile the declaration, or when a product team realises too late that a service was tagged incorrectly from the beginning."

Overpaying on a bloated base
Non-licensable revenue included in the contribution base means 6% is applied to activities that were never meant to be there. The saving from correct segregation can be significant and is recoverable from the point it is corrected.
MCMC queries on revenue patterns
Once a declaration pattern is established, any deviation attracts scrutiny. Companies that cannot justify changes to their revenue base face queries that are difficult and time-consuming to close.
Auditor queries that stall submission
Appointed auditors who do not understand the service architecture will query the segregation. Without a regulatory person who can defend the treatment, submissions are delayed past the 30 June deadline and findings left open.
No internal alignment between functions
Accurate contribution requires product, costing, finance, and regulatory to speak the same language. When they do not, the declaration is only as accurate as the weakest link in the chain.
What This Session Offers
The principles, the method, and the judgment calls that protect your numbers.
This is not a regulatory theory session. It is a practitioner-to-practitioner transfer of the knowledge that sits behind correct USP Fund contribution, accurate RONR declaration, and confident engagement with auditors and MCMC.
Participants leave with a clear understanding of what RONR really requires, how to map licensable activities within bundled service offerings, what internal alignment needs to look like, and how to think like a regulatory person when it matters most.
Understand what RONR declaration actually requires, beyond the 6% calculation that most teams stop at.
Learn how to identify and tag the licensable component within a bundled service offering, before revenue flows through finance.
Build the right internal account treatment from the start so that your revenue declaration pattern is clean and defensible.
Know when to flag concerns to regulatory, and how to seek MCMC direction without exposing the company to unnecessary scrutiny.
Think like a regulatory person in audit so that auditor queries are closed within the stipulated timeframe, not left open as findings.
The saving is already there. This session helps you find it. For operators carrying non-licensable revenue in their contribution base, the financial impact of correct segregation is not theoretical. It is a recoverable, ongoing saving that compounds from the point it is corrected.
Session Outline
Five sessions. One coherent regulatory picture.
Each session builds on the previous one. Participants move from foundational understanding through to operational application and audit readiness. Every session is anchored in practitioner experience, not regulatory theory.
Sessions 01 to 03  ·  Foundation and Method
Session 01
What RONR Really Means
"The declaration is not simply revenue multiplied by 6%. Understanding what sits underneath that is where it starts."
Session 02
Mapping Your Services Correctly
"Tag the licensable component at product level, before revenue flows. Getting this wrong at the start compounds every year after."
Session 03
Getting the Account Treatment Right from Day One
"The pattern you declare first is the pattern MCMC will watch. Build it correctly before the first submission goes out."
Sessions 04 to 05  ·  Protection and Defense
Session 04
Engaging MCMC the Right Way
"Know when to flag, and know how to seek guidance without opening yourself to scrutiny you did not intend."
Session 05
Thinking Like a Regulatory Person in Audit
"Spot the issue before it becomes a finding. Close auditor queries within the stipulated timeframe. Defend the position clearly."
Who Should Attend
For the four functions that must work in alignment.
Accurate USP contribution is not the responsibility of one team. It depends on product, costing, finance, and regulatory understanding their role in the same chain. This session is designed for all four, and is most valuable when attended together.
Regulatory Teams
Responsible for RONR preparation, yearly submission, and MCMC engagement. The function that must interpret, advise, and defend when questions arise.
Finance Teams
Responsible for declaring the correct revenue figure. Must understand which revenue is in scope and which is not before the numbers are submitted.
Product Teams
Responsible for identifying the nature of each activity within a service bundle. The starting point for correct segregation before revenue flows anywhere.
Costing Teams
The critical function between product and finance. Whether standalone or embedded under finance, costing must segregate revenue correctly for the declaration to be clean.
Your Facilitator
Experience from inside the obligation, not outside it.
Siti Amelda Suraya binti Abdul Halim
Siti Amelda Suraya binti Abdul Halim
Head of Learning  ·  Northbridge Consulting and Training
Amelda brings 22 years of regulatory experience from inside Telekom Malaysia, Malaysia's largest recipient of USP funding and one of the country's most significant contributors to the USP Fund. Her career spans regulatory strategy, parliamentary and regulatory liaison, Universal Service Provision, quality of service, and MCMC engagement across a range of regulatory obligations that define how a large licensed operator manages its compliance posture.
Within TM's USP obligations, Amelda's direct experience covers USP Fund management for the company, RONR preparation and yearly submission coordination, and the full submission process to MCMC. She has provided internal advisory on complex and ambiguous service situations where the regulatory treatment of a bundled offering was not straightforward, and has worked directly with product teams across TM to advise on the correct revenue treatment of services for USP contribution purposes.
She has first-hand knowledge of the internal coordination challenges between product, costing, finance, and regulatory that determine whether a company's USP declaration is clean, defensible, and accurate. She has engaged directly with appointed auditors and MCMC on matters requiring regulatory interpretation and defense of the company's position. After TM, she served as Head of Complaint and Compliance Management at the Consumer Forum of Malaysia (CFM) before founding Northbridge Consulting and Training.
22 Years  ·  Telekom Malaysia Malaysia's Largest USP Fund Contributor USP Fund Management RONR Preparation and Yearly Submission Service Revenue Treatment Advisory Product Team USP Advisory Auditor and MCMC Engagement Parliamentary and Regulatory Liaison CFM  ·  Head of Complaint and Compliance Management Northbridge Consulting and Training  ·  Founder
Co-Facilitator Placeholder
To be confirmed  ·  Senior USP Regulatory Practitioner
"The 6% is not the question. What it is applied to is the question nobody is asking."
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Programme TitleUSP Fund and RONR: Know What You Are Paying For  ·  USP Practitioner Series
CategoryPractitioner Insight Session  ·  Experience Transfer  ·  USP Fund and Revenue Declaration
Duration1 Day (8 Hours)
Target ParticipantsRegulatory, finance, product, and costing teams inside licensed telco operators with responsibility for or involvement in USP Fund contribution and RONR declaration
PricingRM 5,920 per participant
HRD Corp StatusHRD Corp Claimable  ·  Eligible organisations may submit levy claims
Programme ProviderNorthbridge Consulting and Training  ·  northbridge.com.my
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