<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi,</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Before the price wars that brought the calling rate to below 10/- by mobile phone charges averaged 15,000/-, my internet was about 5,000/-.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>After the price drops I decided to retain my expenses but increase the utility of the money.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>I installed a WiMax link in the house, changed my office ISP to Safaricom and convinced my partner to change his home ISPs to Safaricom. By total communication cost to date has dropped to 14,000/- and with Skype my partner and I can communicate constantly at a flat rate.</div><div><br></div><div>Let as embrace the new communication channels that have been made available and stop insisting on lowering tariffs of voice calls and
appreciate the lower priced and more reliable broadband services.</div><div><br></div><div>Now all I need is a public WiFi network in the CBD and all my calls can move to VoIP.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br></div><div>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<br><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 17:26<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Safaricom Limited adjusts its tariffs<br></font><br><div id="yiv197353660">The increase by a shilling will not affect consumers by much if you ask me. The cumulative effect is only felt by Safaricom and as the CEO said it is necessary. There are options if we cant stomach an increase by a shilling then we should move communication to email and twitter. <br>
<br><div class="yiv197353660gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Edith Adera <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:eadera@idrc.or.ke" target="_blank" href="mailto:eadera@idrc.or.ke">eadera@idrc.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv197353660gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
With number portability in place and some providers having free calls (with minimum ksh 2 per day...permanently!)...I think it's quite clear what direction consumers will take!<br>
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Edith<br>
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Safaricom Limited adjusts its tariffs<br>
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Since I was with Collymore qhen he made the announcement, I can say<br>
this: it was not an easy decision for Safaricom to make.<br>
I totally disagree with some of their data pricing plans but I see the<br>
logic of the retail voice tariff increase.<br>
The company has 2100 plua base stations many on own masts. Exh of them<br>
needs a standby generator to keep it runnuning in case Kenya Power<br>
does what it does best: plunge people into darkness.<br>
Reason 2: Kenya Airways, the only other company besides SafCom,<br>
Kenolkobil and Kenya Power that generates a billion dollars a year, is<br>
not entering dedicated cargo business blindly.<br>
One of the big imports from the Far East is telecom equipment, a lot<br>
of it by or for Safaricom. With the Kenya Shilling sliding wildly,<br>
Safaricom is ending up paying a lot more than it budgeted, not just<br>
for the equipment but also for the transport becuase of fuel.<br>
The company did not say if it will increase or reduce tariffs if and<br>
when the current economic environment changes, my guess would be yes<br>
to an increase if inflation keeps rising and the Shilling continues to<br>
slide.<br>
We are looking to the US to announce a dip into recession which would<br>
plunge crude prices by 20-30 USD per barrel the same day. It would<br>
begin to solve our currency issues.<br>
<br>
On 9/30/11, waudo siganga <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:emailsignet@mailcan.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:emailsignet@mailcan.com">emailsignet@mailcan.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Since we are in a competitive environment I would expect news of<br>
> individual operators changes in price to be useful only for<br>
> purposes of informing consumers to take decisions. The importatnt<br>
> thing is that no operator should be stopped from reducing or<br>
> increasing their prices as they wish. My own belief is that the<br>
> price elasticity of demand for mobile voice is fairly negative,<br>
> especially given that an individual consumer can run multiple<br>
> SIMS. Let's wait and see.<br>
><br>
> Waudo<br>
><br>
> On Friday, September 30, 2011 4:40 PM, "Harry Hare"<br>
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