Looks like Safaricom has taken steps to address the issues highlighted in Erik's post. <div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2012/07/safaricom-implements-changes-to-data-policy-in-kenya/">http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2012/07/safaricom-implements-changes-to-data-policy-in-kenya/</a><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Ali Hussein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<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"><div class="im">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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