Curious to know which bodies come under this federation and, while its not explicitly stated, does Cofek exclude/include ISPs/Data Providers? I believe over and above MNOs provision of data services, there have been concerns with fixed providers.<div>
<br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2011 09:12, Stephen Mutoro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen@cofek.co.ke">stephen@cofek.co.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Dear
Alice & Others:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Kenya Information and Communications Act (2009).</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">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!</span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Kind regards,</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Stephen Mutoro</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Secretary General, COFEK</span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.cofek.co.ke" target="_blank">www.cofek.co.ke</a>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">------Original
Message------</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:
alice@apc. org</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">To:
<a href="mailto:stephen@cofek.co.ke" target="_blank">stephen@cofek.co.ke</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">ReplyTo:
alice@apc. org</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Subject:
Kenya ICT Action Network.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Sent:
2 Apr 2011 1:55 PM</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I
read your opinion article featured on standard newspaper April 1st and welcome
your views and analysis. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I
would like to invite you to join a multi-stakeholder forum called KICTANet that
discusses ICT policy and regulatory issues. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thank
you</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Alice
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