Sent on Behalf of <b>Consumers Federation of Kenya (Cofek)</b> <div><br></div><div>Dear Alice & Others:</div><div> </div><div>Greetings from Cofek and I. We are very grateful to
have been invited on this forum. Clearly, we have a lot to
learn from you as we offer our counter views and lessons.
Please allow us to make our maiden submission here. Indeed,
we must hasten to mention that at Cofek we are keen to
discuss <b>issues</b> and not personalities. We hope this
forum will live to this expectation. As a credible and
umbrella federation of consumer organizations, we are
equally realistic – we are well aware that sustainable
consumer benefits are best reaped when the market is fair,
just, competitive and predictably stable. Bottom line, we
hope we can agree to disagree on certain matters without
being personal!</div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>From the foregoing, we are friends of all service
providers. This is because without any of them, the consumer
is in serious trouble. On telecommunications sector for
instance, the Cofek Sector Unit responsible is a “friend” of
all MSPs (Yu, Orange, Airtel and Safaricom and any other).
We had the first meeting with MSPs on 25<sup>th</sup>
January and hope to host another one before end of April. We
will, therefore, be disappointed if the arguments posted on
this forum appear to suggest that perhaps one or other MSP
is better than the other without credible supporting
evidence. Remember, they are all in business to make money.
They wil apply different formula and strategy to this end.
Cofek has no problem with their reasonable profits. Without
regret, however, we are ever ready and willing to take
drastic action, including seeking legal redress, should any
of them go against Article 46 of the Constitution as well as
</span><span lang="EN-GB">Kenya Information and Communications
Act (2009).</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB"></span> </div><div>It is for this reason that Cofek’s first
point of entry into the sector is with the quality and
performance of regulatory regimes, in this case the CCK. We
are interested to be assured that the CCK board of directors
and management does not only comply with the law but is one
that can be relied upon to deliver against world benchmarks.
On occasions, we will be keen to discuss various issues –
such as the tariff structure and promotions, innovations,
consumer IEC, possibility of a 5<sup>th</sup> operator and
why not?, MNP among others. In so doing, we work closely
with media houses for instance Cofek will be on KTN Business
Live discussing MNP at 2.00 pm today. In a nutshell, we are
pleased to be on this forum and wish each of you a great
week ahead!</div><div> </div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Stephen Mutoro (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="mailto:stephen@cofek.co.ke" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(53, 66, 88); ">stephen@cofek.co.ke</a>)</span></div>
<div>Secretary General, COFEK</div><div><b><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.cofek.co.ke" target="_blank">www.cofek.co.ke</a></span></b></div><div><br>
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