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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black">GG and all</span><span style="font-family:arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black">I'm really curious:-</span><span style="font-family:arial"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">1. </div>This document seemed
very loaded. And it seems that it has gone beyond its mandate? Were the
Consultants asked to provide recommendations to remedy a 'Dominant' position?
it would be good if we could have seen the TOR for this assignment. <span style="font-family:arial"><span></span></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black">To quote the article:-</span><span style="font-family:arial"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">2. </div>Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore said he had not seen
the report, but bristled at the prospect of an external party ordering the
company to break up its business. <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black">“I am pretty hostile to the idea. We
can’t have other people dictating whether we break up our company or not,” he
said.</span><span style="font-family:arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black">Absolutely. I can't blame him for that. </span><span style="font-family:arial"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black">It also seems like the Regulator is Regulating Safaricom for the
competition not for the consumer</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"> - if of course the leaked report is to be believed.</div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">Then the leaked document talks about the possibility of splitting M-Pesa from Safaricom but stopping shot of making the split permanent - as in split them but let them remain under one legal entity. In commercial terms this is known as creating 'Chinese Walls'. We all know how that works. </div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">IT NEVER WORKS!! </div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">Besides which. Breaking up companies is simply a Regulatory tool fit for the AT&Ts, Standard Oils (which by the way is back as one huge conglomerate after being split into more than 50 companies) of this world.</div><br><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">3. This is the information age. The Networked Age, The Millenial Age. The core potential customers don't care about Nationality, colour, creed or whatever else. All they care about is What have you done for me lately? or better still - What can you do for me now?</div><br><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">Its clear Safaricom has earned its strips. Remedying market power abuse cannot be to split up the company. The idea that you punish a successful company by cutting it into pieces is preposterous in 2017.</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">4. CA, we would like to see the report before 'internal' review. We would like to see it before it is edited. This is the age of transparency. We would hope that the report we finally see as the community will look the same as the one Jaindi Kisero seems to be privy to.</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">Share the report already...</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:black"><br></span></p>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>As the draft Dominance report undergoes internal review at CA, Jaindi Kisero continues to provide some snapshots.<br><br><br><p></p><p>"Telecoms operator Safaricom could be forced to hive off its popular mobile money service M-Pesa if sector regulator, the CA, moves to implement recommendations of a market dominance report.</p><br><p></p><p></p><p>Separating the highly profitable mobile money service from Safaricom’s core telecoms business – commonly referred to as functional separation - is the gist of a raft of recommendations that international consultants<br>- Analysys Mason - have made in a yet-to be published reportseen by the Business Daily."</p><p></p><br>More details: <a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Safaricom-faces-M-Pesa-break-up-in-market-dominance-war-/996-3824618-vdv5gw/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.<wbr>ke/business/Safaricom-faces-M-<wbr>Pesa-break-up-in-market-<wbr>dominance-war-/996-3824618-<wbr>vdv5gw/index.html</a><br><br><br><br>Best regards<br><br><br>Githaiga, Grace<br><br><br><p>Co-Convenor<br>Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet)<br>Twitter:@ggithaiga<br>Tel: 254722701495<br>Skype: gracegithaiga<br>Alternate email: <a>ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a><br>Linkedin: <a>https://www.linkedin.com/in/<wbr>gracegithaiga</a><br><a href="http://www.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">www.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><br>"Change only happens when ordinary people get involved, get engaged and come together to demand it. I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change – but in yours"---Barrack Obama.</p><br></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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