<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Internet penetration at at December 2015:<div class="">Kenya - 75%</div><div class="">Ethiopia - 7%</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My observation has been that Ethiopia considers the telco sector first as a security instrument and two a money making enterprise for the government. This is despite making KES 50B in the last 6 months. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bringing this debate back to Kenya, I hope at no point will the regulator allow this kind of non-competitive business practices get into the market, like Uber indecision led to the current hostilities. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Moses. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 4, 2016, at 6:57 PM, Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" class="">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Moses</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ethiopia is a special case and I dare say that their handling of the ICT Sector will be hugely detrimental to the country going forward.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pundits say that Ethiopia's stance vis a vis Kenya's in the ICT sector can be seen in how the two countries compare in the development of the sector.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Access to information cannot be substituted with anything else. Not even Totalitarian Government. <br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);" class=""><b class="">Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);" class=""><b class="">Principal</b></span></div><div class=""><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: inherit;" class="">+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font class=""></font></span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Skype: abu-jomo</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank" class="">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></div><font class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); " class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);" class=""><br class=""></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><div class=""><br class="">On 4 Apr 2016, at 3:15 PM, Mose Karanja via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div class="">Jambo! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Ethiopia’s only telco, Ethiotel, has announced it will be charging for VOIP services considering they are loosing revenue to the Vibers and WhatsApps of these world. <div class="">They floated a Request for Information on the supply of Policy and Charging Control (PCC) and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) mid last year: <a href="http://www.ethionet.et/sites/default/files/bid/RFQ-3209012.pdf" class="">http://www.ethionet.et/sites/default/files/bid/RFQ-3209012.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It seems the set up is complete and they will go ahead with implementation (<a href="http://www.addisinsight.com/ethio-telecom-charge-services-like-viber-whatsapp/" class="">http://www.addisinsight.com/ethio-telecom-charge-services-like-viber-whatsapp/</a>). There have been network disruptions since last week on VOIP apps and some basic probes I did pointed to IP address blocking but whatever it is they are doing notwithstanding, this raises some issues here. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The fight back from telcos against OTTs in the name of revenue/tax/infrastructure costs seems to have moved beyond policy. Technical capacity implies that debate is closed on their end. Ethiotel is a special case considering it is fully owned by the government and it is the only telco in Africa’s second most populous country (around 95Million people). It is easier for them to make decisions. For countries with more liberalised markets, and where government is a regulator not a service provider, could it be that the only impediment to adopting such technical capacities is government regulation and oversight? Could it be that Kenyans, for example, are charged to use WhatsApp but at a very negligible fee that no one notices? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This moves beyond the market - it is a human rights issue. Consumers should not be punished for adopting innovations. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Moses. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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