<div dir="ltr">Break out M-pesa as a separate business?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</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"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Listers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">This is interesting. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(240,240,240)">Airtel Kenya has written to Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) and Competitions Authority of Kenya (CAK) asking that Safaricom be declared a dominant player in the market. Airtel Kenya, which is targeting a bigger share of the country’s voice, SMS, data and mobile-money transfer business, claims Safaricom has been using its dominance to prevent others from growing their business. It is asking the two regulators to intervene and stop the telecommunications sector’s slide into a monopoly where the market leader, allegedly has freedom to do whatever it wishes.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(240,240,240)"><span style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(240,240,240)">Read more at: </span><a href="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000148531/airtel-writes-to-regulators-over-safaricom-s-market-share" style="font-family:Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(240,240,240)" target="_blank">http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000148531/airtel-writes-to-regulators-over-safaricom-s-market-share</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I'm curious as to what remedies there are in the act to reverse safaricom's dominance.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Ali
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font> </font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>T<font>el: <a href="tel:%2B254%20770%20906375" value="+254770906375" target="_blank">+254 770 906375</a>/ 713 60<font>1113</font></font><br></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><span></span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">

</span></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">

</p><font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Blog: <a href="http://www.alyhussein.com" target="_blank">www.alyhussein.com</a><br><br><br><font size="1">Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with.</font></span></span></font><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face',serif;font-size:11pt"></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span>

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