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

Fri May 27 13:40:36 EAT 2016

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On May 27, 2016 1:31 PM, "Sean Moroney via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> These are issues we need to discuss at the 7th annual Broadcast, Film &
> Music Africa conference (BFMA) at KICC over 18-19 October.
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> aitecafrica.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On Behalf Of *Baiju Shah via
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> *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
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> Quotas is one thing what about free trade and demand from customers, have
> the regulators checked the consumer demand.
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> We work with a triple play provider in the Middle East and they have a
> 1,000 channels and n-VOD / VOD services.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> Best Regards,
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> Baiju
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> On 26 May 2016, at 11:58, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Why are they not on Netflix ? :)
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> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Tony White via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> Cheers,
> Tony
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> On 26/05/2016, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
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> > Not to mention:-
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> > 1. Mother in Law
> > 2. Tahidi High
> > 3. Tushauriane
> > 4. And others..
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> > :-)
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> > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Waithaka Ngigi <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
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> >> Ahmed
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> >> Makes sense for us too..
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> >> #JustSaying..
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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> 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.
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> >> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 6:15 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
> >> 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). :-)
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> >>> Read on:-
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> http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2016/05/eu-plans-free-internet-shopping-set-netflix-quotas/
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> >>> Ali Hussein
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