<font face="georgia,serif">Grace<br><br>The question is: What is the regulator doing about this? <br><br>Ali Hussein<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Grace Githaiga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" target="_blank">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><br></div><div><p style="line-height:22px;text-align:left;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-size:14px;margin-bottom:1.57143em;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">99% of Kenya�s�<a href="http://cck.go.ke/news/2012/Mobile_Subscribers.html" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(35,97,161)" target="_blank">6.5m</a>�internet users access it via mobile, of which Safaricom owns 77% marketshare.</p>
<p style="line-height:22px;text-align:left;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-size:14px;margin-bottom:1.57143em;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">In Kenya, when you buy a 1.5Gb internet bundle from Safaricom you pay 1000ksh (~$12). You�ve paid for the data, and there is no additional cost to Safaricom if you were to use that data today or a year from now. The whole concept of data bundle expiry is ridiculous, as noted by Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore when he visited the iHub:</p>
<p style="line-height:22px;text-align:left;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-size:14px;margin-bottom:1.57143em;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">�When you go into a petrol station and fill up your car, does the owner of the petrol station tell you to bring it back on Wednesday to take back what�s left in the vehicle? Of course not. So I ask, why the hell are we doing that?�</span></p>
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Read on</p></div><div><a href="http://whiteafrican.com/2012/07/18/how-safaricom-steals-your-internet-bundle/" target="_blank">http://whiteafrican.com/2012/07/18/how-safaricom-steals-your-internet-bundle/</a>
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