[kictanet] Mobile Number Portability

Fri Apr 30 18:18:18 EAT 2010

MM,

I am just curious, does consistency of the company in terms of brand,
perfomance and involvementin CSR affected MNP?

Regards

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:13 PM, muriuki mureithi
<mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:
> Thanks Gerhard
>
> Unfortunately,   the porting fee  extends the walled garden concept even
> further and thus discriminates and  segments a target market for MNP perhaps
> as you note for the high end.  It would be interesting to see if the market
> leader does not make moves that  consolidates its advantage with its war
> chest.  This is what Mobilink  continues to do. I noted that operators give
> some goodies for those who port.
>
> BTW when is the service being launched?
>
> Cheers
>
> Muriuki Mureithi
>
>
>
> From: Gerhard May [mailto:gerhard.may at gmail.com]
> Sent: 30 April 2010 17:06
> To: mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke
> Cc: ke-internetusers-bounces at bdix.net; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Mobile Number Portability
>
>
>
> Hello Muriuki,
>
> market characteristics in Kenya require MNP to increase competitiveness in a
> market where one dominant player got 80% market share.
>
> MNP will dilute the "club stategy" (within own network charges are low and
> to other networks very high) since networks can no longer be identified by
> the prefix (072x does not necessarily mean that the number is a Saf'com
> number or 073x Zain)
>
> Note: in Pakistan 2.5m customers out of 97m have moved but in terms of
> revenues that could be easily more than 20% of the total market volume (and
> compared to the leaders 32% market share a significant percentage).
>
> Gerhard May
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:55 PM, muriuki mureithi
> <mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:
>
> Hi Jevans
>
> Just come from Pakistan this week and they have an interesting model with
> the MNP managed by an independent agency. MNP established in March 2007 is
> among the earliest and  customers pay a small fee to be ported.  To date
> only 2.5m people have ported among the 97   million cellular customers.
> Operators ( 6 ) use MNP to poach but as the numbers  indicate, this has not
> been successful for large movements despite the heavy ads. Typical porters
> are TOP not BOP to retain  number  mostly for quality and coverage issues.
> Price issues at BOP level does not appear to be  addressed by MNP and
> therefore multiple cards phenomena still prevalent . BOP is only served when
> behavioural factors are taken into account – family and friends packages are
> more significant than retaining the phone number.  Competition is stiff
> with the largest operator   Mobilink having  a 32% market  share.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Muriuki Mureithi
>
>
>
> From: kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> [mailto:kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke]
> On Behalf Of Jevans Nyabiage
> Sent: 30 April 2010 15:29
> To: mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke
> Cc: ke-internetusers-bounces at bdix.net; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> Subject: [kictanet] Mobile Number Portability
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Looking at countries that have tried to unveil the Mobile Number
> Portability, it seems no impact has been felt in most of them including
> developed ones.
>
>
>
> Is Kenya any different? Do Kenyans really need MNP? Who will it benefit?
> Will it ever work as subscribers will be required to pay Sh1,000 to switch
> to another network.
>
>
>
> Jevans
>
>
>
>
>
>
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