[kictanet] Matiang’i rules out Safaricom reprieve from licence terms
Walubengo J
jwalu at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 9 17:37:58 EAT 2014
True that @Kimani,
More Revenue should lead to subsequent investments in expanding the Network Capacity - ideally(theoretically). But reality is different.
Assume you bought a 14-seater Matatu (bus) and the passenger demand is so high that you always carry above the specs -i.e around 20 passengers in the 14-seater. How long will it take it you upgrade to a 28-seater matatu? 1yr, 2yr, 5yrs, when govt tells you to?
The correct answer is as soon as you start losing the "seated" customers. As long as the seated (existing) and the joining customers are NOT leaving the matatu (network), you will not bother to expand it. Why should you when you are making twice the money expected to be made from the 14-seater?
Strictly speaking, in a free market economy even the government cannot force you to expand your matatu (Network). Only the customers can...and if the customers are not (leaving), find out why and fix that. My hypothesis is that the market is broken. Fix the market and the quality issues will fix themselves.
walu.
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On Thu, 1/9/14, Antony Kimani <kimanianthoni at gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Matiang’i rules out Safaricom reprieve from licence terms
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 12:46 PM
@Walubengo
IMHO the more the customers the higher the revenue
suffericon should have invested more on infrastucture for
quality improvement as the customer numbers grew.
BR
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at
12:37 PM, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com>
wrote:
I don't see any methodology section in that
report. Is this evaluation using standard methods? If
so, what are the actual methods used by CCK to generate the
numbers?
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On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at
12:31 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com>
wrote:
Adam,
I did send the report link in an earlier post. It was @
http://www.cck.go.ke/consumers/other_info/downloads/REPORT_ON_THE_QUALITY_OF_SERVICE_2012-2013.pdf
The only problem I have is that CCK might be looking at
Quality in isolation. In an ideal situation, the increased
No. of subscribers would put pressure on the Safaricom
Network such that its Quality would deteriorate (which has
happened) and subsequently force subscribers to ran away to
better quality networks (which has NOT happened). If
Safaricom customers had moved to other networks, this would
force Safaricom to naturally improve its Quality (read:
invest in Network Capacity Expansion in tandem with
increased Subscriber numbers).
Reading the riot act to Safaricom is not sufficient to
warrant Quality improvement. The departure of its customers
would.
So if I was the DG of CCK, I would be working on the WHY are
the suffering -sorry - Safaricom ustomers like me NOT
moving? Sort that out, and the quality equation will be
resolved.
walu.
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On Thu, 1/9/14, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com>
wrote:
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Matiang’i rules out Safaricom
reprieve from licence terms
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 11:36 AM
Where is the report?
All I see is a press release with no
report:
http://cck.go.ke/news/2013/Mobile_operators_fail.html
And a broken link for the 'Publications &
Statistics' section:
http://cck.go.ke/resc/
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On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at
11:26 AM, James Mbugua <jgmbugua at gmail.com>
wrote:
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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