[kictanet] Matiang’i rules out Safaricom reprieve from licence terms

[James Mbugua]

Adam,

It might help if you read the CCK report itself on their website.

James


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:

> I guess the US regulators would step in about voice quality if it was bad
> in certain areas that the market wouldn't want to serve.  The theory would
> be that the spectrum is a public asset licensed to the vendor in order to
> further the public good - and that part of the license terms are to satisfy
> the public good.
>
> This is why the US landline regulators force telephone companies to
> service very rural areas at the same price as more economically efficient
> urban areas.
>
> If CCK was saying that all of the operators needed to put masts in Turkana
> as part of a public good, that would be one thing.  But just saying that
> voice quality is low in general and not backing it up with how that
> compares to international standards (they surely exist and the article
> discusses that Safaricom passed such international tests) seems like a
> pretty weak argument to me.
>
> Of course, the writing in the Business Daily article is so muddled that
> it's hard to tell what's actually going on.
>
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> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:14 AM, James Mbugua <jgmbugua at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Adam,
>>
>> Is it standard in other countries or is the QoS a Kenyan/CCK feature?
>> Then it might be a shakedown.
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  This seems like a shakedown to me.
>>>
>>> Everybody I know gets Safaricom if they can afford it (otherwise
>>> Airtel).  The market can handle quality problems and the CCK can help by
>>> educating the local markets (i.e. local radio spots discussing carrier
>>> quality in each market).
>>>
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>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  ICT secretary Fred Matiang’i has vowed to tie the renewal of
>>>> Safaricom’s licence to the voice quality checks that show the mobile phone
>>>> operator is non-compliant.
>>>> Dr Matiang’i said the government and the Communications Commission of
>>>> Kenya (CCK) will not negotiate on the voice quality standards.
>>>> ....
>>>> “I don’t understand why an operator would like to negotiate a licence
>>>> condition. There are only two options here, either comply or step out of
>>>> the business,” Dr Matiang’i told the Business Daily on the sidelines of the
>>>> launch of the electronic filling of returns by insurers to the Insurance
>>>> Regulatory Authority.
>>>>
>>>> Check more @
>>>> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Safaricom-licence-terms/-/539550/2139198/-/uvyr23/-/index.html
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> my comment? - Safaricom "ina weneyewe"  translation for the
>>>> international viewers "Safaricom has its owners" :-)
>>>>
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