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

Fri Feb 20 16:47:45 EAT 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Successor_companies

Not the first time something like this has been tried. The constituent
companies still dominate oil. No new entrants per se.

John Leger at T-Mobile figured this out
http://www.cnet.com/news/t-mobile-swings-to-q4-profit-as-customer-growth-zooms-along/

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Walu
>
> Do you have some socialist leanings? :)
>
> There is a simple solution to dealing with the Mpesa dominance issue.
> Drive policy to ENFORCE interoperability. You kill that dependency very
> quickly.
>
> Rwanda has done it successfully. Why can't we? after all it's a matter of
> national security.
>
> With interoperability I can switch seamlessly within the financial sector
> infrastructure without worrying. The government/Airtel/Orange/Kenya Bankers
> then drives awareness ala Digital Migration. :)
>
> It's not rocket science and it doesn't require any breakup. :)
>
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> On Feb 20, 2015, at 3:45 PM, Walubengo J via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> @Mwendwa - u mention some 2010 regulations on competition published by the
> Ministry of ICT.  Not seen these regulations but I would be worried that
> the ministry of ICT is now publishing regulation - something that is the
> mandate of the Regulator.  Ministry should stick to policy.
>
> Either way, the Law (as in the Constitution and the Acts are superior to
> the Regulations and so in case of conflict I would expect the latter to
> override)
>
> As for breaking up Safcom, I have always proposed we should given its
> giant state - even the might of MTN, Equity, Airtel combined will barely
> scratch its dominant position.  The question is not so much that they have
> "earned" this position through hard work and innovation, the question is
> about creating backup positions for ourselves as a country.
>
> Think about it, if MPESA broke down today for more than 2hrs today, we
> might have street riots. This is good for Safaricom but not good for Kenyan
> stability -unless and until we have a reliable alternative of MPESA with
> similar magnitude we are literally a social bomb waiting to be triggered.
> Indeed if I was a foreign army wishing to attack Kenya, I will not target
> the barracks or statehouse, I will target MPESA.
>
> Our success is has become our biggest liability and we must face that fact
> and begin to think around it constructively. Airtel is secondary in this
> conversation if you asked me. We should have had  it on own volition.
>
> walu.
>
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>  *From:* Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *To:* jwalu at yahoo.com
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2015 5:04 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] [isoc_ke] Should Safaricom be broken up as
> 'recommended' by Airtel?
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>
>
>
> 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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