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

[Edith Adera]

Interesting indeed!


Need to study any "anti-competitive" behaviour and act....question is, will the regulator(s) act? Safaricom has its owners.


Consumer behavior also has a key role to play...I've argued that for years and if memory serves, Michael Joseph once said "Kenyans have peculiar habits". These habits play a BIG role in keeping the BIG player dominant!


Edith

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

Listers

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

I'm curious as to what remedies there are in the act to reverse safaricom's dominance.


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