[kictanet] Price Wars

[Stephen Mutoro]

Thanks Daktari. I read it immediately Phares sent it out. It is spot on of
course with usual western world biases of the author who recklessly uses
strong words like "stupid" . Indeed, there is some threshold you can go in
terms of "price wars". That is why Cofek and I are not opposed to a freeze
on lower MTR. That is not to say that do not have reservations on the "wrong
process" of arriving at a right decision. It is about governance and not
economics of price wars articulated within the Economist. Cofek has
commissioned a consultancy around the subject and we expect a report in 4
weeks. I will also be meeting our counterparts in Sao Paolo between 7 - 14
July to compare notes on the telcos, energy and banking sectors. 

Otherwise, I have seen a serious misrepresentation of Cofek position on a
paper called "The Sunday Express". Over 95% of the article is misleading
even after the publisher and its editor came to chatted with me at my
office. It is has no basis to making the stinging remarks attributed to me
on one of the MSPs. Any of you who has not read it, please ignore it. The
publisher has agreed to run my right of reply and has agreed that their
write up was extremely wrong. I deeply regret the erroneous impression the
article may have made and must apologize unreservedly to the MSP adversely
mentioned and for no reason.

On a separate matter, I am grateful to receive an invite from the Minister
for 28/6 Kenya Yearbook 2010 launch. Hope to meet you then. Kind regards


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Phares,
Thank you. I had already seen it in the hard copy of the Economist. I hope
Stephene Mutoro would have sometime to peruse through.

Regards


Ndemo.





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