[kictanet] Safaricom gets crucial support in battle with CA

[Barrack Otieno]

Many thanks for that insight Engineer Wainaina.

Regards

On 4/29/15, John Kariuki via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> Grace, Listers
>
>
> This is still very much work inprogress.
>  It would appear that the Competition Authority has not addresseditself to
> exceptions to the principles of Competition Law. One major suchexception is
> the Telecommunications Sector where companies are allowed to alignbehaviour
> with that of competitors by negotiating Interconnection Agreements,without
> appearing to collude (so called “concerted practices” , an offenceunder
> competition law), rather than compete.
>
>
> There is compelling amount ofknowledge on this subject at least from
> 1990.The 1997 EU Interconnection Directive is a good starting point.EUAccess
> Directive would explain further. Some lessons could also belearned from “The
> Application of the Competition Act in the Telecommunicationssector” (Oftel
> January 2000).
>
>
> However, I see some light at theend of the tunnel. Only this April 2015(see
> CA website), CA and IFC signed an Agreement on “CompetitionRegulation for
> promoting market competition through developing a collaborationframework in
> light of the concurrent jurisdiction over competition matters between CA and
> the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK)”
>
>
> Do I need  saymore!
>
>  John Kariuki
>
>
>       From: Grace Githaiga via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>  To: ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk
> Cc: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>
>  Sent: Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 0:03
>  Subject: [kictanet] Safaricom gets crucial support in battle with CA
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> Telecoms operator Safaricom has received crucial support in its war with the
> Francis Wangusi-led Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) which wants to
> automatically declare it a dominant player in the market.The support came
> from the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK), the consumer markets referee,
> which has poked holes into Mr Wangusi’s draft regulations that will from
> mid-June declare Safaricom a dominant player on grounds that it controls
> more than 50 per cent of the telecoms market.
> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Safaricom-gets-crucial-support-in-battle-with-CA/-/539550/2698158/-/52irq8/-/index.html
>
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