[kictanet] EU PLANS TO LIFT BARRIERS ON INTERNET SHOPPING AND IMPOSE QUOTAS ON NETFLIX

Fri May 27 13:25:32 EAT 2016

These are issues we need to discuss at the 7th annual Broadcast, Film & Music Africa conference (BFMA) at KICC over 18-19 October.

Sean Moroney

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From: kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+seanm=aitecafrica.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Baiju Shah via kictanet
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 7:31 AM
To: seanm at aitecafrica.com
Cc: Baiju Shah <baiju at telemedia.co.ke>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] EU PLANS TO LIFT BARRIERS ON INTERNET SHOPPING AND IMPOSE QUOTAS ON NETFLIX

Quotas is one thing what about free trade and demand from customers, have the regulators checked the consumer demand.

We work with a triple play provider in the Middle East and they have a 1,000 channels and n-VOD / VOD services.

We found that some of the channels would have been watched by 1 person may be once a month, some of the VOD assets never watched.

Therefore, the measure here is customer demand and organisations like Netflix are focused on the customer and have experts who evaluate your viewing habits to push content that you might like to watch and further work a away out to keep the customer loyal.

Not too sure what the Europeans are trying to promote in terms of local content that is poor, why doesn't European Union spend on marketing local content under a scheme of some sort. This will create demand not imposing a restriction on commercial organisations, think this is the wrong approach to begin with. May be they need to justify to the public they are doing something!

Thanks,

Best Regards,

Baiju

On 26 May 2016, at 11:58, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> > wrote:

Why are they not on Netflix ? :)

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Tony White via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> > wrote:

For VoD services, it is easy to add local content to their portfolio -
nobody has to actually watch it! (if they don't want to!) - so they
can easily achieve any target % they have to meet.  It's very
different for broadcasters, though.

Any initiative which will improve and broaden our local content is
welcome.  I would like to see some local SciFi, sit-coms, thrillers
etc. instead of a steadily increasing stream of boring soaps!

Cheers,
Tony

On 26/05/2016, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> > wrote:
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> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Waithaka Ngigi <ngigi at at.co.ke <mailto:ngigi at at.co.ke> > wrote:
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>> Lots of sense. Can you imagine if Vioja, Vitimbi, Tahamaki All Episodes
>> were‎ on Netflix?
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>> Waithaka Ngigi
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>> *From: *Ali Hussein via kictanet
>> *Sent: *Thursday, May 26, 2016 9:52 AM
>> *To: *Ngigi Waithaka
>> *Reply To: *KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>> *Cc: *Ali Hussein; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>> *Subject: *Re: [kictanet] EU PLANS TO LIFT BARRIERS ON INTERNET SHOPPING
>> AND IMPOSE QUOTAS ON NETFLIX
>>
>> Ahmed
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>> Makes sense for us too..
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>> #JustSaying..
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>> *Ali Hussein*
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>> "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking
>> what no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On 26 May 2016, at 8:09 AM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy <
>> ultimateprogramer at gmail.com <mailto:ultimateprogramer at gmail.com> > wrote:
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>> Well.. they not only have but also actively encourage and develop local
>> capacity to rival such products. For them I suppose it makes sense.
>>
>> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 6:15 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> > wrote:
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>>> The EU announced plans to free internet shopping and ban geo-fencing.
>>> Netflix and Amazon are to adhere to a 20% local content requirement
>>> (Seems
>>> like these guys are case studying Kenya). :-)
>>>
>>> Read on:-
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2016/05/eu-plans-free-internet-shopping-set-netflix-quotas/
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