<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(77,77,77);font-family:"PT Serif","Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px">"The CA has, however, defended the report, saying it was revised after wide consultations and input by all industry stakeholders."</span><br><div><br></div><div>Who was involved in this wide consultation? I didn't see any call for public participation on the CA <a href="http://ca.go.ke/index.php/ca-public-consultations">website</a>. I'm getting increasing frustrated reading about a report that everyone but me, and by extension the public, seems to have read. I would remind the CA that the frequencies these companies operate on belong to the public and are licensed on our behalf. We deserve to see these reports. Therefore I'm making the demand here and by email directly to the CA after this for:</div><div><ol><li>The original report by Analysys Mason</li><li>This revised report</li><li>Details on when the "wide consultations" happened, who attended, what was discussed there and documentation of who made what comments.</li></ol><div>This is not a matter of national security so these details need to be in the public domain. It's ridiculous that these things are still under wraps after all this time. </div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 January 2018 at 13:28, Ali Hussein 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"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Listers</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Is this headline misleading or what? :-)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">A revised competition report by the telecommunications industry regulator has dropped the controversial proposal calling for the splitting of Safaricom into separate business units, drawing the ire of its rivals.<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5rem 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Airtel, Kenya’s second-biggest telecommunications company after Safaricom, hit out at the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), saying failure to finalise the dominance debate and watering down of the report was hurting the smaller operators.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5rem 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Read on:-</font></p></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/companies/Regulator-drops-plan-to-split-up-Safaricom/4003102-4249652-11icb6yz/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr>businessdailyafrica.com/<wbr>corporate/companies/Regulator-<wbr>drops-plan-to-split-up-<wbr>Safaricom/4003102-4249652-<wbr>11icb6yz/index.html</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">I don't know about you but I personally would love to get a glimpse of this 'revised report'. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">I hope someone from CA is listening and remembering that we have a right to that report..At least that's what the constitution tells us.. :-)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2" color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"></font><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b><br></div><div><div class="m_8511080319597665009gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Hussein & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>T<font size="2">el: +254 713 60<font size="2">1113</font></font><br></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">

</span></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/<wbr>alihkassim</a></span><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">Chiromo Road, Westlands,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black">Nairobi, Kenya.</span></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span><br><font size="1">Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with.</font></span></span></font><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif;font-size:11pt"></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span>

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