[kictanet] Airtel writes to regulators over Safaricom's market share

[Mark Mwangi]

Break out M-pesa as a separate business?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Listers
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> This is interesting.
>
> Airtel Kenya has written to Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) and
> Competitions Authority of Kenya (CAK) asking that Safaricom be declared a
> dominant player in the market. Airtel Kenya, which is targeting a bigger
> share of the country’s voice, SMS, data and mobile-money transfer business,
> claims Safaricom has been using its dominance to prevent others from
> growing their business. It is asking the two regulators to intervene and
> stop the telecommunications sector’s slide into a monopoly where the market
> leader, allegedly has freedom to do whatever it wishes.
>
> Read more at:
> http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000148531/airtel-writes-to-regulators-over-safaricom-s-market-share
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> I'm curious as to what remedies there are in the act to reverse
> safaricom's dominance.
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Mark Mwangi

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