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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Jevans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Just come from Pakistan this week and they have an interesting
model with the MNP managed by an independent agency. MNP established in March
2007 is among the earliest and customers pay a small fee to be ported.
To date only 2.5m people have ported among the 97 million cellular customers.
Operators ( 6 ) use MNP to poach but as the numbers indicate, this has
not been successful for large movements despite the heavy ads. Typical porters
are TOP not BOP to retain number mostly for quality and coverage
issues. Price issues at BOP level does not appear to be addressed by MNP
and therefore multiple cards phenomena still prevalent . BOP is only served
when behavioural factors are taken into account – family and friends
packages are more significant than retaining the phone number. Competition
is stiff with the largest operator Mobilink having a
32% market share.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Cheers <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Muriuki Mureithi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Jevans Nyabiage<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 30 April 2010 15:29<br>
<b>To:</b> mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ke-internetusers-bounces@bdix.net; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [kictanet] Mobile Number Portability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Looking at countries that have tried to
unveil the Mobile Number Portability, it seems no impact has been felt in most
of them including developed ones. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Is Kenya any different? Do Kenyans really
need MNP? Who will it benefit? Will it ever work as subscribers will be
required to pay Sh1,000 to switch to another network.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jevans <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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