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

[Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)]

I wonder if breaking up, without sufficient safeguards against cross
ownership of the business pieces will achieve intended result?

Away from the issue of dominance, who has capacity and willingness to fill
in the gap should there be one?

@ Wangari, this is a critical sector where dominance has ripple effects
even on government services. The comparison to sweets and others....

Regards,

2015-02-18 17:04 GMT+03:00 Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>:

>
> 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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