[kictanet] Regulator drops plan to split up Safaricom

Thu Jan 4 17:41:11 EAT 2018

Dear Listers,
Kindly see the attached response by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) on the article appearing in the Business Daily on 3rd January 2018 titled: Regulator drops plan to split up Safaricom.

Regards
Mark Okuttah

From: Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke<mailto:ali at hussein.me.ke>>
Date: Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 1:39 PM
To: Mark Okuttah <okuttah at ca.go.ke<mailto:okuttah at ca.go.ke>>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Regulator drops plan to split up Safaricom

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

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,

Nairobi, Kenya.

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.

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:12 AM, Mark O. Okuttah <okuttah at ca.go.ke<mailto: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<mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>>
Reply-To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>>
Date: Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 7:32 AM
To: Mark Okuttah <okuttah at ca.go.ke<mailto:okuttah at ca.go.ke>>
Cc: Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke<mailto: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

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,

Nairobi, Kenya.

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.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Odhiambo Washington via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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/Regulator-drops-plan-to-split-up-Safaricom/4003102-4249652-11icb6yz/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,

Nairobi, Kenya.

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.

_______________________________________________
kictanet mailing list
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/

Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/sidney.ochieng%40gmail.com

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,
Sidney

Twitter: @princelySid<https://twitter.com/princelySid> | Web: sidneyochieng.co.ke<http://sidneyochieng.co.ke/>
Skype: sidney.ochieng | Github: princelySid<https://github.com/princelySid>

_______________________________________________
kictanet mailing list
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/

Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/odhiambo%40gmail.com

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.

--
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
"Oh, the cruft."

_______________________________________________
kictanet mailing list
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/

Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ali%40hussein.me.ke

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.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/attachments/20180104/2312726d/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: CA's Response to Allegations in Business Daily.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 1195433 bytes
Desc: CA's Response to Allegations in Business Daily.pdf
URL: <https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/attachments/20180104/2312726d/attachment.pdf>