<div dir="ltr"><div>It may be more disturbing is that at this rate - we will be having stories in the archives about how great an innovative sector and Silicon Savannah Kenya really was really soon - or the rise and fall of the innovation space in the Silicon Savannah. We were hailed for being a "hotbed of innovation" recently. But if innovators will be constantly suffocated - there is little to hope for for innovation to have prosperity. Overall the tech sector is a major backbone of our recent economic prosperity.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Rose Lukalo -Owino 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>From the consumer rights perspective on whose behalf competition law exists, I think it is critical to take the conversation away from business and engineering and the technology and always reference the impact a business has in/on society.<br><br></div>It is after all why we as Kenyans "license" business and with that same authority we can revoke that license if at any point we feel a business is hurting citizens or disrespecting the privilege of doing business with them in any way. (Hands up if you still can't get your cellphone company to pick up the (_____) customer service lines.)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="auto"><div>It's bound to be an interesting ride!<br>
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The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies.
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