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

[Brian Munyao Longwe]

Actually, this is quite a serious issue, it has been proven the world over
that an operator with significant market power (SMP) needs strong
regulatory measures to ensure that they do not over exploit the market, and
more importantly quench healthy competition...

On Tuesday, January 20, 2015, Edith Adera via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

>  Interesting indeed!
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>  Need to study any "anti-competitive" behaviour and act....question is,
> will the regulator(s) act? Safaricom has its owners.
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>  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!
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>  Edith
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> of Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
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> *Sent:* Monday, January 19, 2015 11:53 PM
> *To:* Edith Adera
> *Subject:* [kictanet] Airtel writes to regulators over Safaricom's market
> share
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>   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.
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> 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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