<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">The above thread was floated on a neighboring list and has failed to attract any official answers and I thought maybe KICTAnet might have some answers...even from a technical point of view. For example.<br><br>1. Is it possible for Number Portability Solution to be provisioned Ksh @ 20Million? (250,000USD) as opposed to ksh 20Billion as alleged in the newspaper article?<br>2. What are the key price factors in such a technology as well as price experiences elsewhere across the world?<br>3. Is this Number Portability thing really going to take off? What are the planned timelines and how much would it really cost the consumer<br>4. Must we enactment the Freedom of Information Act in order to extract these answers?<br><br>feel free to answer All, One or None of the above ;-)<br><br>walu.<br>--- On <b>Sat, 4/17/10, Alex Gakuru
<i><gakuru@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Alex Gakuru <gakuru@gmail.com><br>Subject: [ke-internetusers] at inflated shs 20 billion, let's just forget 'Number Portability' ever benefiting consumers<br>To: "ke-users" <ke-internetusers@bdix.net><br>Cc: "info" <info@cck.go.ke><br>Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 12:37 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Good people,<br><br>Sometimes it is necessary to start with the conclusion then build the argument.<br><br>Conclusions:<br><br>a) Local Number Portability may, after all, never not take off, or be<br>of much use consumers,<br><br>b) The country need to avoid celebrating premature local Number<br>Portability implementation,<br><br>c) Media caution against dancing to rhythmic gymnastics: 'great new<br>Number Portability' tunes,<br><br>d) Communications Commission of Kenya may be further
eroding it's<br>consumer protection teeth,<br><br>Why?<br><br>Trouble looms large on the horizon of Number Portability – a great<br>technology but we risk oppositely live to regret its local<br>implementation route. Intention hereby to provoke detailed information<br>responses from the concerned.<br><br>Regards the attached newspaper cutting, confidential sources<br>allude,“..one of the bidders felt the portability thing could be done<br>with around Ksh 20Million, how the 20B guys won remains a<br>mystery...this enormous amount will simply find its way lumped onto<br>the consumers after the operators have paid for it.”<br><br>My documented view has always been that Number Portability should be<br>funded from the Universal Service fund created by the Communications<br>Act.<br><br>Background:<br><br>Hello CCK, Number Portability is a Consumer Protection Tool<br>Alex Gakuru<br>12 November 2007<br><br>Consumers are stuck without the option to switch
to a different<br>operator while keeping their mobile phone number and are hesitant to<br>change to avoid losing important future calls in the persistent status<br>quo. This is at odds with the law commanding the Communications<br>Commission of Kenya to ensure consumers are protected offering a raft<br>of implementation avenues.<br><br>But when CCK gives up implementation of number portability citing<br>complexity, high costs, duopolists' disinterest, and no licence<br>applicants for the service category, the issue escalates to bursting<br>limits considering the prevailing high communication tariffs that hurt<br>businesses but the service providers.<br>..<br><a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200711120436.html" target="_blank">http://allafrica.com/stories/200711120436.html</a><br><br>A reader's reaction:<br><br>From: Okoth Okwemba <<a ymailto="mailto:ookwemba@dtbkenya.co.ke"
href="/mc/compose?to=ookwemba@dtbkenya.co.ke">ookwemba@dtbkenya.co.ke</a>><br>Date: Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 3:37 PM<br>Subject: hello CCK, number portability is a consumer protection tool<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:gakuru@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=gakuru@gmail.com">gakuru@gmail.com</a><br><br>Well done Gakuru on this article. This is excellent. The CCK has been<br>told, let us find a way to compel it to act swiftly and deal with the<br>lack of accountability that sees it get away with such laxity and<br>abdication of duty. The Kenya Private Sector Alliance might be an<br>organisiation you might want to involve.<br><br>Well done again.<br><br>Regards,<br>Okoth<br><br>References:<br><br>i) Cost/Recovery: 'Funding Models for AIN-Based Local Number Portability'<br> <a href="http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/%7Emweiss/papers/lnp-funding.pdf"
target="_blank">http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~mweiss/papers/lnp-funding.pdf</a><br> <br>ii) Increased Consumer Choice: 'Wireless Local Number Portability'<br> <a href="http://www.kpmg.com.co/publicaciones/publicaciones_ICE/WLNP.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.kpmg.com.co/publicaciones/publicaciones_ICE/WLNP.pdf</a><br> <br>iii) Stakeholders:'Number Portability Worldwide Implementation Experience'<br> <a href="http://www.canto.org/doc/gabriellago.ppt" target="_blank">http://www.canto.org/doc/gabriellago.ppt</a><br></div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail">_______________________________________________<br>ke-internetusers mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:ke-internetusers@bdix.net" href="/mc/compose?to=ke-internetusers@bdix.net">ke-internetusers@bdix.net</a><br><a
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