[kictanet] [isoc_ke] Should Safaricom be broken up as 'recommended' by Airtel?

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

On 18 February 2015 at 15:22, WANGARI KABIRU via isoc <isoc at lists.my.co.ke>
wrote:

> *"The Kenya Information and Communications Act section 84W gives the
> Communications Authority of Kenya powers to declare a service provider to
> be dominant if their market share is at least 50 per cent of the relevant
> gross market segment," Mr Matiang'i noted. *
>

Wangare, you have murdered the law, and read it out of context.

"The current regulation on competition, published by the ICT ministry in
2010, equates dominance to abuse of the market. The regulator says this
makes it difficult to declare a licensee dominant considering that the
threshold of proof of abuse is very high."

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