Great Intervention Grace, do you have an idea on who are what we can do to get this Consumer protection laws in place? possibly a townhall meeting or Kamukunji to address the issue, i surpose it is a burning issue...<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Grace Bomu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nmutungu@gmail.com">nmutungu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Unified Licensing without adequate consumer protection laws is not the best situation because with the freedom to offer converged services licensees are prone to practise unfair trade and uncompetitive pricing. This is exactly the situation in Kenya with strong the telecos/ GSM companies practising monopoly. We definately need the anti-competition and consumer protection regulations that were consultatively discussed by multiple stakeholders but shelved after gazettement to be implemented. <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 9 July 2010 11:59, Barrack Otieno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Lord Mwesh :-)<br><br>Good question, it seems like this is a very tough subject based on the limited responses that we are receiving, it might be an indicator to the regulator that more needs to be done in terms of awareness on the new License, i saw an interesting discussion on another list where a Telco was being blamed for taking over everything, i found the discussion to be misplaced since they are taking advantage of the provisions in the new licensing model, the question is whos responsibility is it to educate the Mwananchi and local businessmen who feel they are losing out...any take on this from seasoned experts MM?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:37 PM, lordmwesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lordmwesh@gmail.com" target="_blank">lordmwesh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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It's true that the Unified Licensing Model will stiffen up competition<br>
on telecommunication companies which in turn will spur growth in the<br>
sector and thus give end users more choices.<br>
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My concern is, will the government loose the revenue it gets by<br>
issuing single licenses? Will the small players in the industry afford<br>
the license fees for unified licenses?<br>
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Regards<br>
Mwendwa<br>
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