<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>Mark,</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>You took the words out of my mouth. Its economics, period!</div><div><br></div><div>Harry</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Mark Mwangi <<a href="mailto:mwangy@gmail.com">mwangy@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Wed, 22 May 2013 19:47:57 +0300<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Cio_Magazine Hare <<a href="mailto:harry@africanedevelopment.org">harry@africanedevelopment.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [kictanet] Is CCK's move to renege on a promise to award a 3rd digital signal distributor license justified?<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Let us not try and make this a regulatory or policy issue what with theorizing the pros and cons. Incumbent broadcasters are about to be stuck with millions worth of obsolete equipment and a cartel that will be worthless soon enough. it is this investment that they are fighting to maintain a stranglehold on the industry. <div><br></div><div style="">Its a commercial issue plain and simple. I would be amused if the CCK was to hold its ground and find other stations to fill the incumbents shoes. Nobody is indispensable. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:58 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Listers,<br>
In my view, digital migration is "Free to air". A consumer should therefore not be required to join any subscription service in order to migrate.<br><br>
John Kariuki<br>
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