<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Ngigi </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">:-)</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The issue of Mobitelea aside (because we will really never know how that went down) Safaricom is simply better at everything:-</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">1. Their lobbying is simply superior and a thing of beauty to watch. Lobbying is an acceptable practice the world over. Please don't complain when your competitor is doing a better job at it than you..</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">2. Which industry is Safaricom in? Energy? (Mkopa Solar with 500k subscribers simply won't have existed without the symbiotic relationship they have with Mpesa. And Safaricom skims off the top as per agreement); Banking? CBA without Mshwari is a shell; Payments? Lipa na Mpesa is giving Visa and Mastercard a run for their money; TV? Zuku is about to feel real competition. And the list goes on.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">3. I'm keen to see the Dominance Report because I think we need to expand our thinking. I don't believe there is anyone today who has Dominance in any particular area at least not in the traditional way we have defined Dominance.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">4. The thing of course to watch is abuse of Market Dominance. And this in itself a slippery slop. Once The US Government tried to break up Microsoft. What the Government couldn't do the Market did. Free Markets are the greatest equalizer.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Let us be careful what we wish for. In as long as the customer is generally happy we have nothing to fear. <br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 30 Jan 2017, at 8:29 AM, Ngigi Waithaka <<a href="mailto:ngigi@at.co.ke">ngigi@at.co.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">Ali,</p>
<p dir="ltr">The only palatable End Game; Equitel buys off Airtel Kenya, combines it with Helios stake @Telkom</p>
<p dir="ltr">Massive innovation thereafter would get back some respectable market share.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Truth be told, Safaricom's cozzyiness with GoK has helped it along big time. I dare say if Kencell has ceded 10% to Mobitelea, as Safaricom was more than glad to do, we'd probably be speaking a different story right now!</p>
<p dir="ltr">What these foreign firms investing in Africa need to remember is.......</p>
<p dir="ltr">THIS IS AFRICA!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 Jan 2017 8:40 a.m., "Ali Hussein 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 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_-5791904895753179148gmail_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 face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Hussein & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2">
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