[kictanet] Seacom goes live- wait for TEAMS

[Bill Kagai]

Maybe its time to split these list. Businesses and Civil Society
actors. They will never see things the same.


On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Gakuru Alex<alexgakuru.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.