[kictanet] Airtel Plans Africa Exit

Wed Feb 1 14:33:20 EAT 2017

No need to say more, the facts speak for themselves ;)

Best regards,

Brian

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

> Brian
>
> Let me latch on to that word Hypothetical. :-)
>
> According to the English Dictionary this means:-
>
> *'Supposed but not necessarily real or true'*
>
> Need I say more? :-)
>
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>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 1 Feb 2017, at 10:42 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Ali,
>
> Solid points. My premise is that Safaricom has a "hypothetical monopoly"
> in a number of their product lines. In essence, they can increase their
> prices on these products by 5-10% and customers wouldn't have an
> alternative supply/supplier. This is the most basic litmus test for market
> dominance. (My friends from the legal, regulatory and competition vectors
> can correct me if I err.) It is a sensitive subject and please accept my
> apology for diverting from the genesis of this thread (Airtel exit) and
> belaboring the point regarding  Safaricom's (alleged) significant market
> power. I'll rest my case and leave it to the powers that be to determine
> the best way forward.
>
> Yours always,
>
> Mblayo
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:02 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Brian/Barrack
>>
>> Very true. There could be instances of abuse of Market Power. This
>> doesn't stop us as customers and competitors to point these out. And
>> seeking remedies. There must however be evidence of this and a formal
>> complaint lodged with the Regulator and/or courts.
>>
>> The Chairman of Airtel is the one who started this particular firestorm
>> of Africa Exit at Davos.
>>
>> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-20/airtel-
>> considering-exits-stake-sales-at-some-africa-operations
>>
>> So no fake news here.
>>
>> Brian, my major concern about Market Dominance is how we define it and
>> execute remedies against its abuse. The assumption that I simply cannot
>> agree with is that Customers are so dumb that they will continue giving
>> Safaricom a bigger and bigger chunk of their share of the wallet because of
>> coercion and lack of choice. We have choices guys. There are a number of
>> player now that are not even telcos that are starting to chip at
>> Safaricom's Dominance when it comes to mobile money..Not to mention the
>> fact that cash is still king?
>>
>> I won't even dwell on the other aspects - voice, data etc. the
>> competition is vibrant and competitors coming out of the woodwork. From
>> places we haven't even fathomed yet.
>>
>> While the other telco competitors are mulling exits and crying foul of
>> skewed playing fields Safaricom is busy sassing out who their next
>> competitors are..
>>
>> Tafakari hayo (think about that).
>>
>> *Ali Hussein*
>> *Principal*
>> *Hussein & Associates*
>> +254 0713 601113 <+254%20713%20601113>
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a
>> habit."  ~ Aristotle
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On 1 Feb 2017, at 12:10 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>> 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> <+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> <+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> <+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*
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
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>>
>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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>> platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT
>>
>> policy
>>
>> and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in
>>
>> the ICT
>>
>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
>>
>> development.
>>
>>
>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable
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>>
>>
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>>
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>>
>> platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT
>>
>> policy
>>
>> and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in
>>
>> the ICT
>>
>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
>>
>> development.
>>
>>
>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable
>>
>> behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times
>>
>> and
>>
>> bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize,
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>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder
>>
>> platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT
>>
>> policy
>>
>> and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in
>>
>> the ICT
>>
>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
>>
>> development.
>>
>>
>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable
>>
>> behaviors
>>
>> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and
>>
>> bandwidth,
>>
>> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy,
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>> do
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>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder
>>
>> platform
>>
>> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
>>
>> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the
>>
>> ICT
>>
>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
>>
>> development.
>>
>>
>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
>>
>> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and
>>
>> bandwidth,
>>
>> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy,
>>
>> do
>>
>> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>>
>>
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>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
>>
>> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
>>
>> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
>>
>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
>>
>> development.
>>
>>
>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
>>
>> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and
>>
>> bandwidth,
>>
>> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy,
>>
>> do
>>
>> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Regards,*
>>
>>
>> *Wait**haka Ngigi*
>>
>> Chief Executive Officer | Alliance Technologies | MCK Nairobi Synod
>>
>> Building
>>
>> T +254 20 525 0750 |Office Mobile: +254 716 201061 <+254%20716%20201061>
>> <+254%20716%20201061>
>>
>> | M +254 737 811 000
>>
>> www.at.co.ke
>>
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>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
>>
>> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
>>
>> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
>>
>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
>>
>> development.
>>
>>
>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
>>
>> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and
>>
>> bandwidth,
>>
>> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy,
>>
>> do
>>
>> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
>>
>> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
>>
>> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
>>
>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
>>
>> development.
>>
>>
>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
>>
>> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and
>>
>> bandwidth,
>>
>> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do
>>
>> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
>> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
>> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
>>
>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
>> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth,
>> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do
>> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>>
>>
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>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
>> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
>> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
>>
>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
>> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth,
>> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do
>> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>>
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