<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">@Ngigi</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Interesting article. Though I think its abit shallow. To say Google controls the Digital Ad business is to stretch the truth abit because there are many aspects of this business not just search. And increasingly search is being replaced by Social. As we focus on one company's dominance (Microsoft, IBM etc) we fail to acknowledge the changing aspects of the industry itself.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I think the major question we need to ask is this:-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Should Google, Facebook and Amazon be declared public utilities?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Is advertising as crucial as say communication via telephone, internet and mobile money? I think not. Can we live without search and social media? absolutely. Can we live without communication and the internet? Maybe. We just need to back to the stone age. :-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">And closer to home should the Kenya Government declare MPesa a public utility? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">For us to answer this question we need to transport ourselves back in history when the US Government declared AT&T a public utility. There was a case then for 'approving' a monopoly through a series of government regulatory actions and AT&T's acquisitive strategy. The main case was about <b>INTEROPERABILITY </b>(emphasis deliberate).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Is there a case now for say pushing towards MPesa being a utility? We cannot understate the impact MPesa has on our lives. Should we then because of this force the Utility Status on MPesa and force Safaricom to open it up to other players?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><img src="http://t.sidekickopen16.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LNdFMd_KMKRbM7xW4Wzv6P2zlZNzW26tGP91k1H6H0?si=6190904865718272&pi=9e8ec63b-cf42-41e9-855d-abce731a6fa7" style="display:none!important" height="1" width="1"><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Ngigi Waithaka via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Listers,<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/opinion/sunday/is-it-time-to-break-up-google.html?_r=0" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/<wbr>04/22/opinion/sunday/is-it-<wbr>time-to-break-up-google.html?_<wbr>r=0</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here we go, again.... </div><div><br></div><div>It seems these *BIG* issues have been and will continue being with us for a long while.</div><div><br></div><div>Before @Ali shoots back, this is a different debate from the Risk Management one, although they have certain areas where they intersect.</div><div><br></div><div>I quite think the closing words are very appropriate...</div><div><br></div><div><i>"...<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:17px">Woodrow Wilson was right when he said in 1913, “If monopoly persists, monopoly will always sit at the helm of the government.” We ignore his words at our peril....</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></i><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-750595232138819476gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:"droid sans",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><font face="Calibri"><font size="2"><b>Regards,</b></font></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Calibri"><font size="2"><b>Wait</b></font></font><b style="font-size:small;font-family:calibri">haka Ngigi</b></div></div><div><div><font face="Calibri"><font size="2"><font face="'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif" color="#888888"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Chief </span></font><font color="#888888"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Executive</span></font><font face="'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif" color="#888888"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"> Officer | </span></font><font style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:"droid sans",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" color="#FF6600">Alliance Technologies</font><font face="'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif" color="#888888"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"> | MCK Nairobi Synod Building</span></font></font></font></div></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:"droid sans",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><font face="Calibri"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial"><font face="Calibri"><font size="2">T +254 20 525 0750</font></font></span></font></font><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:14px"> </span><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:14px">|Office Mobile: +254 716 201061 </span><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:14px"></span><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:14px">| </span><span style="font-family:calibri">M +254 737 811 000<a style="color:rgb(103,117,58)"><br></a></span></div></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:"droid sans",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span style="font-family:calibri"><a href="http://www.at.co.ke" target="_blank">www.at.co.ke</a></span></div><div></div></div></div></div></div>
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