[kictanet] Regulator drops plan to split up Safaricom

Thu Jan 4 13:39:08 EAT 2018

Mark

Thanks for your responses. As I was reading through the history of this
saga I bumped into this story dated back in March 2017..

https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/Telco--competition-watchdogs-rule-out-Safaricom-split-option/539550-3850086-jjpmamz/index.html

Abit of sensational journalism at play here?

The CA should put these rumours and stories to rest by sharing with the
community the original report and the revised one.

*Ali Hussein*

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On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:12 AM, Mark O. Okuttah <okuttah at ca.go.ke> wrote:

>
> Dear Hussein,
>
> This is to inform all  listers  that CA  is currently working on responses
> to  matters that were raised here regarding the Competition Study  and will
> share the same once done.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Okuttah.
>
> From: Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Reply-To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 7:32 AM
> To: Mark Okuttah <okuttah at ca.go.ke>
> Cc: Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Regulator drops plan to split up Safaricom
>
> It would be great to get a response from CA right about now...
>
> *Ali Hussein*
>
> *Principal*
>
> *Hussein & Associates*
>
>
>
> Tel: +254 713 601113
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> Twitter: @AliHKassim
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> Skype: abu-jomo
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> 13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing,
>
> Chiromo Road, Westlands,
>
> Nairobi, Kenya.
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> Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely
> mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the
> organizations that I work with.
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> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Odhiambo Washington via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Whenever you hear anyone close to the politburo in KE talk about
>> "stakeholders", they almost without doubt mean KEPSA.
>>
>> KEPSA represents every imaginable stakeholder, even the nonexistent.
>>
>> Did you hear Matiang'i say the new curriculum was exhaustively discussed
>> with "almost" all stakeholders? Parents have not been consulted. He meant
>> KEPSA :-)
>>
>> On 3 January 2018 at 13:54, Sidney Ochieng via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> "The CA has, however, defended the report, saying it was revised after
>>> wide consultations and input by all industry stakeholders."
>>>
>>> Who was involved in this wide consultation? I didn't see any call for
>>> public participation on the CA website
>>> <http://ca.go.ke/index.php/ca-public-consultations>. I'm getting
>>> increasing frustrated reading about a report that everyone but me, and by
>>> extension the public, seems to have read. I would remind the CA that the
>>> frequencies these companies operate on belong to the public and are
>>> licensed on our behalf. We deserve to see these reports. Therefore I'm
>>> making the demand here and by email directly to the CA after this for:
>>>
>>>    1. The original report by Analysys Mason
>>>    2. This revised report
>>>    3. Details on when the "wide consultations" happened, who attended,
>>>    what was discussed there and documentation of who made what comments.
>>>
>>> This is not a matter of national security so these details need to be in
>>> the public domain. It's ridiculous that these things are still under wraps
>>> after all this time.
>>>
>>> On 3 January 2018 at 13:28, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Listers
>>>>
>>>> Is this headline misleading or what? :-)
>>>>
>>>> A revised competition report by the telecommunications industry
>>>> regulator has dropped the controversial proposal calling for the splitting
>>>> of Safaricom into separate business units, drawing the ire of its rivals.
>>>>
>>>> Airtel, Kenya’s second-biggest telecommunications company after
>>>> Safaricom, hit out at the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), saying
>>>> failure to finalise the dominance debate and watering down of the report
>>>> was hurting the smaller operators.
>>>>
>>>> Read on:-
>>>>
>>>> https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/companies/Regu
>>>> lator-drops-plan-to-split-up-Safaricom/4003102-4249652-11icb
>>>> 6yz/index.html
>>>>
>>>> I don't know about you but I personally would love to get a glimpse of
>>>> this 'revised report'.
>>>>
>>>> I hope someone from CA is listening and remembering that we have a
>>>> right to that report..At least that's what the constitution tells us.. :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Ali Hussein*
>>>>
>>>> *Principal*
>>>>
>>>> *Hussein & Associates*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tel: +254 713 601113
>>>>
>>>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>>>
>>>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>>>
>>>> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>>>> <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing,
>>>>
>>>> Chiromo Road, Westlands,
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>>> Sidney
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>>
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