[kictanet] Airtel Plans Africa Exit

Wed Feb 1 00:10:59 EAT 2017

Many thanks Mblayo for your insightfull comments.

By the Ali and listers, i heard on Radio Airtel disputing claims that
they are planning to exit the African Market. Seems like we are
dealing with Fake news or what?

Regards

On 1/31/17, Brian Munyao Longwe via kictanet
<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> Hussein,
>
> I agree with you that in a competitive market the stronger will have a
> certain level of dominance. However in the telecoms industry, and more
> specifically when we talk about a space with a limited number of issued
> licenses (call them competitors), things can go very wrong very quickly if
> an eye isn't kept on a dominant player with significant market power (SMP)
> which can be abused to produce anti-competitive effects. It is also very
> necessary to reduce the granularity of analysis almost to the product level
> as a company can have varying levels of market dominance across different
> ranges of product offerings, a good example is m-pesa which has already
> been cited (my guesstimate is that Safaricom has about 98-99% market share
> in mobile money). Thereafter a composite of the various dominances(sic)
> across various products lines would probably give a fair idea of the extent
> to which the company dmoinates overall.
>
> At this point it would be possible to determine whether anti-trust
> methodologies, regulatory interventions, policy interventions are
> necessary. At the crux of all of this is the strength (and independence) of
> the various regulatory authorities (comms regulator, competition authority,
> revenue authority et al). And of course underpinning all of this is the
> strength of the policy, legislative and statutory frameworks that govern
> the space.
>
> IMHO the country is a the mercy of Safaricom's goodwill. All the company
> needs is a Trump who will strong-arm all of the actors/players into dancing
> to his/her tune...
>
> My two sumuni,
>
> Mblayo
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:20 AM, Beryl Aidi via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>> Interesting debate. And after all the vibrant debate, explanations and
>> the
>> likely perception of Safaricom as the bad guys or reaping from policies
>> skewed to their advantage, for me the Big Q is why is Airtel exiting
>> other
>> countries as well? Can it be facing the same issues across the board, or
>> could it be simply not understanding the African market altogether?
>> Way back when in the early days, I think they were first to introduce the
>> concept of sharing airtime called Me2U. I might have seen a TV ad or two
>> on
>> NTV and KTN and that was it. Safaricom took the idea, called it Sambaza,
>> advertized where wananchi were and the rest is history. And the same
>> pattern repeated itself in many ways, just knowing how to get people's
>> hearts. Remember the Masai ad?
>> Sometimes the answers are in the simple things.
>>
>> Best
>> Beryl
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Ngigi Waithaka via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> Ali,
>>>
>>> My very last take on this....
>>>
>>> What you refer to, that the market always corrects itself assumes a
>>> pretty fair playing field, in which case, yes!
>>>
>>> However, closely associated with market dominance is monopoly tendencies
>>> (stolen from Julius Malema), illegal & underhand business practices and
>>> *ultimately* anti-competitive behaviours!
>>>
>>> Lets look back at Microsoft versus everyone else. While Microsoft wasn't
>>> broken up as was initially suggested, they were forced to open up their
>>> API
>>> for the operating system to ensure that every developer using the
>>> Microsoft
>>> Windows API got the exact same API.
>>>
>>> They were also forced to unbundle IE from the OS. If you remember
>>> Windows
>>> '98, IE was equivalent to the Windows Shell. You used it upende
>>> usipende!
>>> What did that do to other browsers, it killed them off one by one!
>>>
>>> When they unbundled the browser and gave users a choice on the Windows
>>> Platform we got Firefox, Google Chrome et.al.... Innovation
>>>
>>> Look to the other side of Microsoft incenstious relationship with Intel
>>> forming the formidable WinTel!
>>>
>>> Intel at the height of its anti-competitive behaviour paid Dell more
>>> than
>>> USD 1B *NOT* to use AMD chips which were by then leading in the
>>> processors
>>> war. Remember AMD gave us 64bit computing way ahead of Intel.
>>>
>>> It is not hard to imagine what 'illegal' things one would do if you had
>>> a
>>> few Billion shillings to spend against your competitors with no
>>> anti-competition laws. You could:
>>> 1. Pay every mobile agent to make sure they never offer services for
>>> other providers apart from yours
>>> 2. With you advertising budget running into Bs ensure that your
>>> competition never airs any Ads from your competitors, until you
>>> 'approve'
>>> it.
>>> 3, with your deep pockets ensure no 'bad' or illegal practices that you
>>> are heavily involved in are mentioned anywhere in the media. If any
>>> media
>>> house airs any, you pull-off your entire media bookings from them until
>>> they 'shika adabu'!
>>> 4. Buy the entire usable bandwidth from TEAMS without using it, simply
>>> to
>>> starve your competition until they surrender.
>>> 4. Buy the entire stock of your competitions 'bottles' to make sure they
>>> keep on manufacturing news ones every time as opposed to simply
>>> recycling
>>> them.
>>> 5. Ensure that no mobile phone provider pre-loads any competing app to
>>> your core apps, whether they are sold on your network on not! If they
>>> do,
>>> you simply cancel all their orders and voila, watu wanashika adabu!
>>> 6. Ensure no one even dreams of selling dual-sim phones through your
>>> network... yeah, this one was hilarious & true!
>>>
>>> Point is, Market dominance that ultimately leads to anti-competitive
>>> behaviour, which ultimately stifles competition.
>>>
>>> Think about it, what-if, just before M-Pesa launched, Airtel Kenya which
>>> I think was at par with Safaricom then, called their lobbyist and handed
>>> them some seriously loaded brown envelopes to kill of the then nascent
>>> mobile money transfer technology, where would we be today?
>>>
>>> And that's why I shuddered when Equity came up with the novel idea of
>>> using SIM Card overlays, which Safaricom fought tooth and nail to stop,
>>> including using serious  FUD, the Courts, Government bureaucracy et.al
>>> to stop an idea whose time had come!
>>>
>>> Equitel was *lucky* to see the next day. You could argue they had deep
>>> pockets!
>>>
>>> But, what of that kid in campus who comes up with MPesa reloaded, will
>>> he
>>> survive the onslaught? What if WhatsApp was a Kenyan firm, threatening
>>> to
>>> take away crucial revenue from SMS from Safaricom as an example?
>>>
>>> Would they have been allowed to thrive?
>>>
>>> How many 'ICT practitioners' would have come out of the woodwork to
>>> claim
>>> that this technology was 'unsafe', 'untested', 'unregulated'?
>>>
>>> How many media outlets would have covered their success stories without
>>> fear of antagonizing their loaded telco customers?
>>>
>>> How many phone providers would have dared to be been 'seen' to
>>> advertising Whatsapp on their phones?
>>>
>>> List goes on & on.
>>>
>>> My point is, market dominance without very solid & well implemented
>>> anti-competition laws stifles innovation big time.
>>>
>>> P.S
>>> Every scenario I have picked on, on what I would do if I had a few Bs to
>>> smoother my competition is hypothetical and likeness to any real
>>> scenario
>>> is by mere inter-galactic coincidence :-)
>>>
>>> Rgds
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Job
>>>>
>>>> I believe you are referring to two phenomena that are becoming common
>>>> place today:-
>>>>
>>>> 1. Interoperability - This implies open standards, ability of systems
>>>> to
>>>> talk to each other seamlessly. My prediction is this:- any company that
>>>> doesn't adhere to this thinking will be dead in less than 3 years. The
>>>> new
>>>> Mantra in Business is *Platform Thinking*. I advise you read this
>>>> article in HBR:-
>>>>
>>>> https://hbr.org/2016/04/pipelines-platforms-and-the-new-rule
>>>> s-of-strategy
>>>>
>>>> 2. The Network Effect. In economics and business the  *network effect*
>>>> (also
>>>> called *network externality* or *demand-side economies of scale*) is
>>>> the effect that one user of a good or service has on the value of that
>>>> product to other people. When a network effect is present, the value of
>>>> a
>>>> product or service is dependent on the number of others using it.
>>>> (Wikipedia)
>>>>
>>>> This simply means that Safaricom has been better at executing than the
>>>> competition.
>>>>
>>>> Let's look at Equity Bank for a moment. They partnered with Safaricom
>>>> initially with their Mkesho Product. We know that story. It simply
>>>> didn't
>>>> go well.
>>>>
>>>> So what did Equity do? Moan? Complain about Safaricom's Dominance or
>>>> unfairness? Or cry foul on legislation?  We know that story too. Today
>>>> Safaricom understands one thing. They have a serious competitor in
>>>> Equity.
>>>>
>>>> That's how the game is played people. If you wait for the galaxies to
>>>> align for you then you better roll over and play for dead. Because we
>>>> all
>>>> know that if you want to be the Big Cajuna in the room - You make the
>>>> Galaxies align for you.
>>>>
>>>> As my son keeps on remind me - Don't hate the Player...Hate the
>>>> Game..and change it!! :-)
>>>>
>>>> *Ali Hussein*
>>>> *Principal*
>>>> *Hussein & Associates*
>>>> +254 0713 601113 <+254%20713%20601113>
>>>>
>>>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>>>
>>>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>>>
>>>> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>>>>
>>>> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but
>>>> a habit."  ~ Aristotle
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>
>>>> On 30 Jan 2017, at 12:02 PM, Job Muriuki <muriukin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ali,
>>>>
>>>> I mean they open up Mpesa and they pay loyalties.
>>>> Currently, it's like been paid with Barclays bank cheque while you bank
>>>> with CBA and the two don't honour foreign cheques so you are forced to
>>>> open
>>>> a Barclays account and before you know it you end up not banking with
>>>> CBA
>>>> altogether. Not that Barclays has better services but somehow you have
>>>> been
>>>> arm twisted to using them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Job Muriuki,
>>>>
>>>> Skype: heviejob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Job
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you suggesting that Safaricom just 'gives' competitors access to
>>>>> their platform without them paying for it? Surely not...
>>>>>
>>>>> This is akin to you saying that now that Tesla has become dominant in
>>>>> Electric Cars they should give up their technology to those
>>>>> Neanderthals in
>>>>> Detroit (GM, Ford etc) simply because they slept through the
>>>>> revolution.
>>>>> Literally.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd agree with you on this principle if you said that it makes very
>>>>> good strategic sense for them to open up Mpesa as a Platform. That is
>>>>> something I think that Safaricom will regret if they don't. But then
>>>>> it's
>>>>> their prerogative.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Ali Hussein*
>>>>> *Principal*
>>>>> *Hussein & Associates*
>>>>> +254 0713 601113 <+254%20713%20601113>
>>>>>
>>>>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>>>>
>>>>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>>>>
>>>>> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>>>>>
>>>>> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act
>>>>> but
>>>>> a habit."  ~ Aristotle
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>
>>>>> On 30 Jan 2017, at 10:58 AM, Job Muriuki via kictanet <
>>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ngigi,
>>>>>
>>>>> It's like you are reading from the same script as I am. I have never
>>>>> understood why we can't use Mpesa on any other number other than a
>>>>> Safaricom one.
>>>>> If Airtel, et al got access to the M-pesa platform then the tale would
>>>>> be very different. As long as Safaricom has exclusivity access to
>>>>> M-pesa the rest will have an uphill task in making any headways in the
>>>>> telecom market in Kenya.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Job Muriuki,
>>>>>
>>>>> Skype: heviejob
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe via kictanet <
>>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> .....and the way CA (formerly CCK) were hammered when they tried to
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> a market intervention on the basis of Safaricom dominance....SMH....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Ngigi Waithaka via kictanet <
>>>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ali,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Analyzing why Safaricom has dominated this market in such Key areas
>>>>>>> as Mobile Telephony, Payment Services etc is probably something that
>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>> qualify for a PHD thesis.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here's what I know though:
>>>>>>> 1. Are Safaricom's Customers happy? Answer is, do they have a
>>>>>>> choice?
>>>>>>> Go back to Microsoft's heyday, were you actually really happy with
>>>>>>> Windows
>>>>>>> '98? Did you have a *choice*?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2. Yes, Safaricom could have better services than Airtel & Telkom,
>>>>>>> although I doubt, having been a user of both Safaricom & Airtel over
>>>>>>> 15yrs.
>>>>>>> Even if they were better, how do you reconcile that they are maybe 4
>>>>>>> times
>>>>>>> the size of the rest of the competition? Are they 4x better than say
>>>>>>> Airtel? I doubt.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now, onto things MPesa, I think Safaricom does MPesa a great
>>>>>>> injustice of not spinning it off. I want MPesa (with all its
>>>>>>> associated
>>>>>>> services) on my Airtel line.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> MPesa needs to be listed on NASDAQ! MPesa needs to be the third
>>>>>>> choice globally after VISA & Mastercard!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But there's the not so small matter of who actually owns MPesa!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Onto matters regulation, if I was CBK, I would be very concerned if
>>>>>>> one such firm had that much 'power' over the money transfer market.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rgds
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ngigi
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The issue of Mobitelea aside (because we will really never know how
>>>>>>>> that went down) Safaricom is simply better at everything:-
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1. Their lobbying is simply superior and a thing of beauty to
>>>>>>>> watch.
>>>>>>>> Lobbying is an acceptable practice the world over. Please don't
>>>>>>>> complain
>>>>>>>> when your competitor is doing a better job at it than you..
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2. Which industry is Safaricom in? Energy? (Mkopa Solar with 500k
>>>>>>>> subscribers simply won't have existed without the symbiotic
>>>>>>>> relationship
>>>>>>>> they have with Mpesa. And Safaricom skims off the top as per
>>>>>>>> agreement);
>>>>>>>> Banking? CBA without Mshwari is a shell; Payments?  Lipa na Mpesa is
>>>>>>>> giving
>>>>>>>> Visa and Mastercard a run for their money; TV? Zuku is about to feel
>>>>>>>> real
>>>>>>>> competition. And the list goes on.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 3. I'm keen to see the Dominance Report because I think we need to
>>>>>>>> expand our thinking. I don't believe there is anyone today who has
>>>>>>>> Dominance in any particular area at least not in the traditional way
>>>>>>>> we
>>>>>>>> have defined Dominance.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 4. The thing of course to watch is abuse of Market Dominance.  And
>>>>>>>> this in itself a slippery slop. Once The US Government tried to
>>>>>>>> break up
>>>>>>>> Microsoft. What the Government couldn't do the Market did. Free
>>>>>>>> Markets are
>>>>>>>> the greatest equalizer.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Let us be careful what we wish for. In as long as the customer is
>>>>>>>> generally happy we have nothing to fear.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Ali Hussein*
>>>>>>>> *Principal*
>>>>>>>> *Hussein & Associates*
>>>>>>>> +254 0713 601113 <+254%20713%20601113>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act
>>>>>>>> but a habit."  ~ Aristotle
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 30 Jan 2017, at 8:29 AM, Ngigi Waithaka <ngigi at at.co.ke> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ali,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The only palatable End Game; Equitel buys off Airtel Kenya,
>>>>>>>> combines
>>>>>>>> it with Helios stake @Telkom
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Massive innovation thereafter would get back some respectable
>>>>>>>> market
>>>>>>>> share.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Truth be told, Safaricom's cozzyiness with GoK has helped it along
>>>>>>>> big time. I dare say if Kencell has ceded 10% to Mobitelea, as
>>>>>>>> Safaricom
>>>>>>>> was more than glad to do, we'd probably be speaking a different
>>>>>>>> story right
>>>>>>>> now!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What these foreign firms investing in Africa need to remember
>>>>>>>> is.......
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> THIS IS AFRICA!
>>>>>>>> On 28 Jan 2017 8:40 a.m., "Ali Hussein via kictanet" <
>>>>>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Listers
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Another one bites the dust?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm really curious as to whats going on in the Telco sector.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Bharti Airtel has announced that it will be exiting 14 African
>>>>>>>>> countries within a year. The affected countries include: Chad,
>>>>>>>>> Congo,
>>>>>>>>> Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda,
>>>>>>>>> Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The telecom operator is faced with poor performance across those
>>>>>>>>> markets. Two years ago, when Airtel began talks to sell off its
>>>>>>>>> operations in Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo Brazzaville and Sierra
>>>>>>>>> Leone to
>>>>>>>>> Orange
>>>>>>>>> <http://mobilityarena.com/airtel-not-exiting-africa-despite-talks-to-sell-4-networks-to-orange/>,
>>>>>>>>> the company had stated that it wouldn’t be exiting Africa.
>>>>>>>>> Airtel plans Africa exit
>>>>>>>>> <http://mobilityarena.com/airtel-exit-nigeria-13-african-countries/>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is the African market too competitive or is the regulatory
>>>>>>>>> environment skewed towards a few players?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> *Ali Hussein*
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> *Principal*
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> *Hussein & Associates*
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Tel: +254 713 601113
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>>>>>>>>
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