<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Ali,<br><br></div>Not only are we seeing unfair advantage accorded to specific players, I think the consumers may need to be aware that they also need to themselves take the step to invest in competing alternatives (is it that the consumers are not aware of the implications - or is it that they plain decide to join the wave).<br><br></div>Why I play the consumer card here is because - by experience - players like Airtel have always offered better service charges for a number of services they offer - including Airtel Money, Monthly bundled plans, etc etc. Sometimes it even made sense to get a monthly bundle from Airtel (across all networks) because its cheaper in the long run.<br><br></div>Frankly consumers lack of support for competing alternatives demonstrates that consumers complain a lot about unfair service provision but take no steps to make it better in the long run - in light of the fact that in such circumstances investing in competition is actually even a cheaper short term option easily available.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:38 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"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Listers</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Another one bites the dust?</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">I'm really curious as to whats going on in the Telco sector.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Bharti Airtel has announced that it will be exiting 14 African countries within a year. The affected countries include: Chad, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">The telecom operator is faced with poor performance across those markets. Two years ago, <a href="http://mobilityarena.com/airtel-not-exiting-africa-despite-talks-to-sell-4-networks-to-orange/" style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">when Airtel began talks to sell off its operations in Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo Brazzaville and Sierra Leone to Orange</a>, the company had stated that it wouldn’t be exiting Africa.</font></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><a href="http://mobilityarena.com/airtel-exit-nigeria-13-african-countries/" target="_blank">Airtel plans Africa exit</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Is the African market too competitive or is the regulatory environment skewed towards a few players?</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div class="m_-6432702222570519931gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">Ali
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