[kictanet] CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos
Brian Muhia
bmn at savannahinformatics.com
Tue Jan 5 13:35:12 EAT 2016
It seems like we have been slowly entering a new phase in our economy.
The dominant telcos seem to have regressed away from the innovation that
helped them grow. My take on this is that since the government does very
little concrete scientific/technological research, it is left to the few
university-affiliated researchers and (the extremely hardworking)
startup companies to invent new technologies before they run out of
funding. Fundamentally new technologies always create new markets.
Because the dominant telcos don't actually innovate any more, just
rearranging product categories and offering the new things invented
elsewhere, they quickly exhaust their market capacity and need to grow
in other places. Since nature abhors a vacuum, all the places they could
go have already been taken over by other similar telcos. Hence the
number of mergers & acquisitions in the past few years. This leads me
back to my earlier question. Is this a move to take control of the
antitrust process?
On 01/05/2016 01:12 PM, Rose Lukalo -Owino via kictanet wrote:
> The question that must be asked is whether that success of the tech
> sector is encouraging or stifling the emergence of others and future
> growth and expansion and in so doing serving the public with newer,
> better shinier opportunities. Behind the scenes conversations within
> the tech sector suggest to me that emergent players choose to play
> safe and stay out of sight of the dominant players lest they be
> whacked into oblivion for daring to demand a piece of the cake. That
> doesn't serve the new players in terms of freedom to contribute nor
> does it serve the public in terms of availability of choice,
> competitive pricing and service.
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy
> <ultimateprogramer at gmail.com <mailto:ultimateprogramer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> It may be more disturbing is that at this rate - we will be having
> stories in the archives about how great an innovative sector and
> Silicon Savannah Kenya really was really soon - or the rise and
> fall of the innovation space in the Silicon Savannah. We were
> hailed for being a "hotbed of innovation" recently. But if
> innovators will be constantly suffocated - there is little to hope
> for for innovation to have prosperity. Overall the tech sector is
> a major backbone of our recent economic prosperity.
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Rose Lukalo -Owino via kictanet
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote:
>
> From the consumer rights perspective on whose behalf
> competition law exists, I think it is critical to take the
> conversation away from business and engineering and the
> technology and always reference the impact a business has
> in/on society.
>
> It is after all why we as Kenyans "license" business and with
> that same authority we can revoke that license if at any point
> we feel a business is hurting citizens or disrespecting the
> privilege of doing business with them in any way. (Hands up if
> you still can't get your cellphone company to pick up the
> (_____) customer service lines.)
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote:
>
> It's bound to be an interesting ride!
>
> ----
> *CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos
> <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>*
> // *BusinessDailyHome
> <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>*
>
> The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to
> independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse
> – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new
> players and allocating frequencies.
> ----
>
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>
>
> Regards,
> Nanjira.
>
> Sent from my iPhone.
>
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