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It seems like we have been slowly entering a new phase in our
economy. The dominant telcos seem to have regressed away from the
innovation that helped them grow. My take on this is that since the
government does very little concrete scientific/technological
research, it is left to the few university-affiliated researchers
and (the extremely hardworking) startup companies to invent new
technologies before they run out of funding. Fundamentally new
technologies always create new markets. Because the dominant telcos
don't actually innovate any more, just rearranging product
categories and offering the new things invented elsewhere, they
quickly exhaust their market capacity and need to grow in other
places. Since nature abhors a vacuum, all the places they could go
have already been taken over by other similar telcos. Hence the
number of mergers & acquisitions in the past few years. This
leads me back to my earlier question. Is this a move to take control
of the antitrust process?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/05/2016 01:12 PM, Rose Lukalo
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<div dir="ltr">The question that must be asked is whether that
success of the tech sector is encouraging or stifling the
emergence of others and future growth and expansion and in so
doing serving the public with newer, better shinier
opportunities. Behind the scenes conversations within the tech
sector suggest to me that emergent players choose to play safe
and stay out of sight of the dominant players lest they be
whacked into oblivion for daring to demand a piece of the cake.
That doesn't serve the new players in terms of freedom to
contribute nor does it serve the public in terms of availability
of choice, competitive pricing and service.<br>
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<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>
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<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>
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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>
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<div>On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Nanjira
Sambuli via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>It's bound to be an interesting
ride!<br>
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to regulate dominant telcos</a></b><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. <br>
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