[kictanet] Seacom goes live- wait for TEAMS

[Gakuru Alex]

online responses

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Michael Joseph<MJoseph at safaricom.co.ke> wrote:
> I think the allegations and language used on this list really discourage
> real informative comment.

If it may assist, my online policy is to disregard ungrounded comments
from "only virtual" annonymii - never seen in real-life for it's
awfully tempting to hide behind anonymous e-IDs solely to pelt quite
unpleasant words.

>
> Not one shareholder will want to price themselves out of the market and, as
> another commentator mentioned earlier, the first to market with competitive
> prices will gain the most.

Proof that competition works. Regulator has indicated their future
attention to strengthening competition environment and consumer
protection. I am comfortable with that- now it's just to ensure it
happens.

> I broke my silence on this subject a few days ago and I regret it now as
> mostly the comments have been somewhat impolite, to put it mildly. I will
> refrain in future.

Retreat?  - a bad move~) Engage "reasonables" and ignore "outrageous"

walu:

>
> Competition?
>
> 3 cables does NOT = competition.
>

add Orange will soon also have their own from Indian Ocean islands.
add O3B, We'll get somewhere...

> As Waudo mentioned elsewhere in his posts, the big boys and girls sitting on
> TEAMs board are the same ones on SEACOM, EASSy and most likely anything else
> likely to land in Mombasa in the near future.
>
> Basically you are looking at a conducive\cartel environment for fixing
> prices - think of our oil industry. Yes you have competition in the name of
> Agip, Total, Caltex, etc but has that brought down prices for gas?
>
> Probably am being paranoid but I am waiting for the case study where public
> good won over private profits...maybe it will happen in another 4 months as
> the PS said.  And when it happens it should  should not be the misleading by
> 1-5% price drops.  Ideally for the TEAMs
> (tax-payers) cable you should be asking for the less than 100USD per MB
> prices that have been floated around over the recent years. And that should
> be per month rates NOT the punitive per byte of download rates.
>

I think the *real* problem is that, as usual, in Kenya nobody teaches
us or prepares the public on "how-to-lose." The public is ever so
subjected to "runners-up" hypes - e.g. 2007 elections, now fibre/cheap
Internet, therefore, when eventually things do not turn out as
expected, anger easily turns into something else- understandable given
the promises made.

The important thing is not to lose sight of the long term and try to
be 3C (Cool, Calm, Collected) then device interventions, calmly~)

cheers,