<p dir="ltr">Reduce investment if declared dominant, makes a bad situation even worse! And who would lose more? Safaricom Shareholders.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The exact same logic certain firms have made in switching off their TV broadcasts to protest digital migration.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Waithaka Ngigi</p>
<p dir="ltr">Alliance Technologies<br>
Nairobi, Kenya</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.A1.io">www.A1.io</a></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 Feb 2015 18:04, "Walubengo J via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr">@Ali, Mwendwa et al.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Just spotted this and it confirms what  I meant Safcom will chew them up faster than the broadcasters are attempting to do. Read on:<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/safaricom-will-cut-investment-if-kenya-moves-to-limit-dominance" target="_blank">Safaricom Will Reduce Investment If Kenya Moves on Dominance</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div style="width:450px;font-family:'Georgia','Times','Times New Roman','serif';margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;background-color:#ffffff"><table style="width:450px;height:auto;display:block" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="7" style="height:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1px;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="min-height:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1px;line-height:0px"> </div></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="5" style="width:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1pt;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="width:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1pt"> </div></td><td rowspan="5" style="width:14px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="width:14px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:14pt"> </div></td><td colspan="2" style="height:6px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="min-height:6px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:6pt"> </div></td><td rowspan="5" style="width:20px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="width:20px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:20pt"> </div></td><td rowspan="5" style="width:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1pt;border-collapse:collapse" width="1"><div style="width:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1pt"> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="width:100%;vertical-align:middle;font-family:'Georgia','Times','Times New Roman','serif'"><div style="line-height:16.5px;background-color:#ffffff;width:414px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;word-break:break-all"><span></span><span></span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/safaricom-will-cut-investment-if-kenya-moves-to-limit-dominance" style="text-decoration:none!important;color:#000000!important;line-height:100%;font-size:18px;display:block" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:3px;font-size:18px;line-height:21px;max-height:43px;color:#000000;overflow:hidden!important;display:inline-block">Safaricom Will Reduce Investment If Kenya Moves on Dominance</span></a><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:20px;color:#999999;max-height:81px;font-family:'Georgia','Times','Times New Roman','serif';overflow:hidden">(Bloomberg) -- Safaricom Ltd. will cut its planned $400
million investment in East Africa’s biggest economy this year if
Kenyan regulators impose penalties on the wireless carrier to
limit its market dominance, its chief executive officer said.</div></div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="height:6px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="min-height:6px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:6pt"></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:middle;font-family:'Arial','Helvetica Neue','Helvetica','sans-serif'"><div style="font-size:0pt"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/safaricom-will-cut-investment-if-kenya-moves-to-limit-dominance" style="color:black;text-decoration:none!important" target="_blank"><span style="display:inline-block;line-height:11px;max-width:314px;min-width:254px;overflow:hidden;max-height:13px;word-break:break-all"><span style="vertical-align:middle;font-size:9px;line-height:11px;color:#999999">View on <span style="font-weight:bold">www.bloomberg.com</span></span></span></a></div></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;width:100px;font-family:'Arial','Helvetica Neue','Helvetica','sans-serif'"><div style="max-width:100px;min-width:80px;overflow:hidden;text-align:right;line-height:11px;max-height:13px;font-size:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:middle;font-size:9px;line-height:11px;color:#999999">Preview by Yahoo</span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="height:9px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="min-height:9px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:9pt"></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7" style="height:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1px;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="min-height:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1px;line-height:0px"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">walu.<br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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