<div dir="ltr">I guess the US regulators would step in about voice quality if it was bad in certain areas that the market wouldn't want to serve. The theory would be that the spectrum is a public asset licensed to the vendor in order to further the public good - and that part of the license terms are to satisfy the public good.<div>
<br></div><div>This is why the US landline regulators force telephone companies to service very rural areas at the same price as more economically efficient urban areas.</div><div><br></div><div>If CCK was saying that all of the operators needed to put masts in Turkana as part of a public good, that would be one thing. But just saying that voice quality is low in general and not backing it up with how that compares to international standards (they surely exist and the article discusses that Safaricom passed such international tests) seems like a pretty weak argument to me. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Of course, the writing in the Business Daily article is so muddled that it's hard to tell what's actually going on.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:14 AM, James Mbugua <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jgmbugua@gmail.com" target="_blank">jgmbugua@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Adam,<div><br></div><div>Is it standard in other countries or is the QoS a Kenyan/CCK feature? Then it might be a shakedown.</div><div><br></div><div>James</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Adam Nelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam@varud.com" target="_blank">adam@varud.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr">This seems like a shakedown to me. <div><br></div><div>Everybody I know gets Safaricom if they can afford it (otherwise Airtel). The market can handle quality problems and the CCK can help by educating the local markets (i.e. local radio spots discussing carrier quality in each market).</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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ICT secretary Fred Matiang’i has vowed to tie the renewal of Safaricom’s licence to the voice quality checks that show the mobile phone operator is non-compliant.<br>
Dr Matiang’i said the government and the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) will not negotiate on the voice quality standards.<br>
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“I don’t understand why an operator would like to negotiate a licence condition. There are only two options here, either comply or step out of the business,” Dr Matiang’i told the Business Daily on the sidelines of the launch of the electronic filling of returns by insurers to the Insurance Regulatory Authority.<br>
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Check more @ <a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Safaricom-licence-terms/-/539550/2139198/-/uvyr23/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Safaricom-licence-terms/-/539550/2139198/-/uvyr23/-/index.html</a><br>
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my comment? - Safaricom "ina weneyewe" translation for the international viewers "Safaricom has its owners" :-)<br>
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