<div dir="ltr"><div>Not to be the forbearing wife in an abusive relationship (they run through my bundles too fast😡<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default">​)<br><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default">Obtaining a dominant position isn't unlawful where the dominant position has been achieved genuinely through hardwork, superiority of products and services and an interplay of supply and demand. What is unlawful (See Section 24 of the Competition Act) is abuse of the dominant position. Our debate on whether or not Safaricom has a dominant position is futile. What we should interrogate is whether 1. the dominant position (assuming indeed the numbers affirm their dominance) was achieved unlawfully and 2. there have been instances of abuse of such position such as product tying (as the writer claims) and restrictive agreements. If the answer to this is yes then by all means let's have a conversation on equitable remedy and please, make those fines hefty. Again, we casually talk about unfair competition but in which market? There is a need to define the markets that Safaricom (and M-Pesa) operate in and see real figures on market share in these markets. <br><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default">It is very tempting to approach this topic emotionally and I think that's the trap the trial judge in US v Microsoft fell in when he ordered that Microsoft be split to two. Well in that case there were instances of abuse, I digress. Legislative (see Midiwo's Bill) and regulatory efforts may sound like a good idea now but what happens when our home grown companies finally make it? Will we subject them to similar vilification? I get the angle on consumer protection but is it really the consumer we are protecting or are we just mad that one company made it while others still struggle? I'd like us to graduate the discussion to whether a lot of what Safaricom does amounts to abuse of dominant position. For example- the new product by PharmAccess, M-Tiba. You're telling me that for me to get services from one product (M-Tiba) I have to subscribe for another product (Safaricom). Am I the only one for whom this raises red flags? <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Tarehe Jumatano, Feb 22, 2017 saa 12:22 Twahir Hussein Kassim via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> aliandika:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="#954F72" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928WordSection1 m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Interesting debate…</p><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></p><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">I would agree with Ali on nurturing the <b class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><i class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">ndogo-ndogos</i></b> (read zukus, jamiis etc) that are upcoming. However I would rather  let the <b class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><i class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">bwana kubwa</i></b> – Safcom be,  the market has a way to trim <b class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><i class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">bwana kubwa</i></b> to size – Nokia is a good example.</p><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></p><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">From: </b><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" target="_blank">Walubengo J via kictanet</a><br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><b class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Sent: </b>Wednesday, February 22, 2017 11:29 AM<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_315868740026346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 then, but today they are more of ICT companies than they are traditional telcos (read voice providers).  <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_162149" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_162149" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">The regulatory instruments and parameters for managing telcos in the 90s/early 2000s are therefore inadequate in dealing with todays dynamic ICT/Internet environment. There is need to have new regulatory instruments that can adequately interrogate todays ICT markets.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_162149" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_162149" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">So once I get the dominance report, I would be keen to understand whether the Consultants recommendations are informed by a  telco-focused regulatory instruments or are based on the new ICT realities. So in answering @Barrack, it is difficult to tell whether splitting Safcom is good or not, unless we understand what were the methodologies used to arrive at such decisions.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_162149" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_162149" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">So I hope Racheal/CA will give us the detailed official report sooner, rather than later.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_162149" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_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33499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">To:</b> <a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" target="_blank">jwalu@yahoo.com</a> <br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><b id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_164667" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Cc:</b> Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>><br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><b id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_164669" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 22, 2017 6:18 AM<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><b id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_164671" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Consumer protection a means of cutting Safaricom’s dominance</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div link="blue" vlink="#954F72" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928WordSection1 m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_162316" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_162315" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_162314" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_162313" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yiv5447847949" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_162312" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_163660" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Barrack<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yiv5447847949AppleMailSignature" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yiv5447847949AppleMailSignature" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Im one of those old enough to remember. :-)<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804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/p></div><div class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><b class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Principal</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_163658" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><b class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Hussein & Associates</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_163664" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">+254 0713 601113 <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_163662" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><div class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Twitter: @AliHKassim<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Skype: abu-jomo<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.c<wbr>om/in/alihkassim</a><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."  ~ Aristotle<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_163654" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Sent from my iPad<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><div class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">On 22 Feb 2017, at 5:27 AM, Barrack Otieno <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" target="_blank">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_163642" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><div id="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275m_-1177263127753655928yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487657117144_163641" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Hi colleagues,<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">I need an explanation like a two year old on this whole dominance<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">debate. Maybe Walu can help me here. Safaricom was a subsidiary of<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Telkom Kenya focused on the mobile phone (GSM) Segment. Looking back<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">into the past and as a result of Liberization, the then giant Kenya<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Posts and Telecommunications Corporation was split into , Telkom<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Kenya, Communications Authority of Kenya (CCK then as the regulator<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">and Posta to handle the post office. We need to step back and<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">interrogate the real reasons as to why Progress of Telkom Kenya and<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Posta has backfired in a maximum of ten bullet points. On the other<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">hand, we also need to figure out how Safaricom (a subsidiary of Telkom<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Kenya which is now a public company bolted out of the stable and<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">became a success). My simple questions:<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">1. Will a split of Safaricom yield the desired effect?<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">2. Is it in the interest of Safaricom (the company or organization<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">that is a legally recognized person by the laws of the land to split<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">so as to suit the competition.<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">3. Can someone share case  studies of where this has worked before?<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Walu or anyone as old as Kenya Posts and Telecommunication Corporation<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">please help.<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Following...<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">On 2/22/17, Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><br class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">@Mwendwa and all<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">it looks like that's what the consultant is suggesting.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Here are two other excerpts from the report that I find interesting:-<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">The most draconian of the prescriptions is the proposal to functionally<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">separate M-Pesa from Safaricom. This is tantamount to proposing a break-up<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">of Safaricom because in terms of growth revenues, M-Pesa is on track to<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">reach 50 per cent of the company’s net revenues. The consultants have also<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">proposed what they call “mandatory wallet-to wallet interoperability”, a<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">system where a consumer can keep cloud accounts across the platforms of<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">different mobile companies, making it possible to move and shift money<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">between accounts as one chooses.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">I have said before and I'm happy to repeat this again. Separating M-Pesa<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">from Safaricom should not be forced on Safaricom. In my humble opinion<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Safaricom should by now have done this voluntarily as a strategic imperative<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">to transform itself into the De-Facto National (Regional) Mobile Payment<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">System. I think the lost opportunity here can be seen by the KBA launching a<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">rival Mobile Platform called PesaLink.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">The mandatory 'Wallet to Wallet' interoperability is an interesting angle<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">and needs to seriously be considered. This sort of compliments my point<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">above.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">They have also recommended a system that they call “agent to agent<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">interoperability”, where agents will be able to support multiple mobile<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">money platforms using what is described in technical language as “a single<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">float”.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">This is certainly interesting. In as much as this supports the notion of<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">'User or Customer Experience'  I think the Regulator and the Telcos should<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">work towards ensuring this becomes a reality. In essence this could be a<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">solution to the allegations that Safaricom discourages its agent network<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">from dealing with rival Telcos.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Lastly, I would largely concur with Jaindi Ksero's conclusion (sort of) that<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">the Consultant has displayed a lack of knowledge in the functioning of our<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">national payments system. I would however like to add one for the road:-<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Are our Regulators (CA, CAK and CBK)  prepared to empower, grow and regulate<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">with a light touch the seemingly fluid Telco, Banking, Payments and Fintech<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Spaces while ensuring that:-<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">a) They embrace innovation and new thinking while protecting National<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Interests and consumers at the same time?<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">b) They work together without resorting to Turf Wars as evidenced in the<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">tiff between the CA and the CAK in 2015.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Competition--telecoms-watchdogs-to-seek-truce-over-Safaricom-/539550-2707286-lqu5sez/index.html" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.businessdailyafrica<wbr>.com/Corporate-News/<wbr>Competition--telecoms-<wbr>watchdogs-to-seek-truce-over-<wbr>Safaricom-/539550-2707286-<wbr>lqu5sez/index.html</a><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">c) They consider creating a Joint Task Force to monitor, encourage and<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">empower players in the spaces mentioned to become Regional and Global<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Players? I have often wondered aloud about the CBK's core mandate of<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">protecting Depositors' funds and wondered (again aloud) whether this mandate<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">is outdated and that it should be expanded to that of becoming an empowering<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">public entity that encourages research, innovation and entrepreneurship in<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">the burgeoning convergence of Banking, Telcos, Payments and Fintech Spaces.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">d) Regulatory tools need to be rebooted and upgraded to reflect the times.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">The current scenarios are such that one doesn't even know anymore which<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">industry one operates in.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">This is a plea for the Regulation Mandates to drastically change and embrace<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">the now and the future.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Can the Future Czars step up?<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_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</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">habit."  ~ Aristotle<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Sent from my iPad<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">On 21 Feb 2017, at 11:12 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">So technically, we want to break up Safaricom so that these companies<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">can gain some traction  "Airtel, has made cumulative debt to date of<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Sh51 billion, according to latest audited accounts for the financial<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">year 2015. Indeed, in the league of loss makers, only Kenya Airways,<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">with their Sh54 billion lost in the most recent years, compares to<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Airtel. As a matter of fact, the numbers in the company’s annual<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">accounts show that Airtel is insolvent and only surviving on life<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">support from the parent company in India. Safaricom’s only other<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">rival, Orange Telkom, has gone through exceedingly difficult trading<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">and financial conditions over the past decade. This a firm that is<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">technically insolvent. It has gone through several episodes of<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">restructuring that have not materially changed its circumstances."<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">______________________<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya<u cl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blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">Jaindi Kisero gives us a glimpse of the competition study in the<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">telecommunication sub-sector undertaken by Ms Analysys Mason on behalf<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">of<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">CA. See full article:<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_10865449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bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">were to inform the crafting of a new framework for regulating abuse of<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">market dominance by the big players.<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u> <u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">As expected, one of the key findings of this study is that Safaricom’s<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg">market share in both the mobile communications and mobile money segments<u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u><u class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"></u></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="m_1086544996233499804m_3158687400263463275gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_1086544996233499804m_3158687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