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<div>Indeed these points you raise are pertinent. Let us see the outcome of the Competition Market Study that we shall be releasing soon. It is not complete but in the next few weeks, it should be out. We shall have a stakeholders roundtable on the same.
I shall ensure this forum is informed and also invited, then you can also interrogate the outcome of the study.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet-bounces+alwala=ca.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet-bounces+alwala=ca.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> on behalf of KICTAnet Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 9:28 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Rachel <<a href="mailto:alwala@ca.go.ke">alwala@ca.go.ke</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>>, KICTAnet Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [kictanet] Airtel Plans Africa Exit<br>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">Respectfully I disagree. </div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">What some people call Market Failure I call Market Dominance. Dominance here means that one works for it. Hard. And earns it. As opposed to a Monopoly which one is given freely. Like Kenya Power. And the assumptions that customers
will go for services or products purely based on price is a fallacy. If this were the case Apple as a company would have died a long time ago. And it almost died once. But it reinvented itself.</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">We need to interrogate this issue deeply. For example let's start first with interrogating the 'Dominance' Report that was supposed to have been out by now. Rachel of CA can maybe advise us on this.</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">Customers are unforgiving towards mediocrity. Instead of blaming a 'Dominant' player or regulation let's address this issue holistically:-</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">1. Is the 'Dominant' player abusing its powers? There are remedies to this.</div>
<div id="AppleMailSignature">2. Are regulatory forces skewed to one player?</div>
<div id="AppleMailSignature">3. What are customers really looking for? </div>
<div id="AppleMailSignature">4. Is the country economic dynamics big enough to accommodate more than three telcos? </div>
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On 28 Jan 2017, at 8:54 AM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy <<a href="mailto:ultimateprogramer@gmail.com">ultimateprogramer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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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
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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
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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
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia,serif" color="#000000">Another one bites the dust?</font></div>
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<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>
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<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,
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<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>
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<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>
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