<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Listers</div><div><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As Safaricom is in the news again accused of abusing its market power, this time in the mobile money space I think we should now start asking the tough questions:-</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Should Regulators force interoperability in the Mobile Money & Banking space? </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Will it spur more usage beyond the normal money transfer services towards a truly seamless and well oiled mcommerce revolution? </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">What are the implications of this if at all the Regulator has the foresight and muscle to force this?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">How about IP Laws? Will this be unfair to Safaricom seeing as it is that they built this dominant position through sheer hard work and seamless execution of strategy? Or is this a mute point since we are now discussing a greater good beyond one company?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Safaricom-calls-M-Pesa-war-truce/-/539550/2082040/-/item/0/-/awsfy1/-/index.html">http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Safaricom-calls-M-Pesa-war-truce/-/539550/2082040/-/item/0/-/awsfy1/-/index.html</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Safaricom is obviously using the <b>Network Effect</b> to the max and it is as it should. One begs the question however whether it was wise and prudent to follow this strategy to muzzle the competition? In some case its costs more than three times to cross use the Mpesa platform to any of the other mobile money services. For how much longer should the regulator allow this anti-competitive practice to continue unabated?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> <br></span><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">Ali Hussein</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">+254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sent from my iPad</span></div></body></html>