<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">+1 for Safaricom.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">A short while ago, I complained about their web hosting services on one of the threads here (as a by the way). By the end of the week my account had been reactivated and moved to their new hosting system. I received alerts on SMS and mail.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Whoever here did that - thank you. </div><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"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Regards,</div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Kevin</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 February 2018 at 18:34, Admin CampusCiti 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="auto">True that Barrack.<div><br></div><div>We must commend Safaricom for this while at the same time continue to engage them positively.<br><br><div id="m_7916714349845381497AppleMailSignature"><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><span class=""><div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div></span><div><span class=""><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.<wbr>com/in/alihkassim</a><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"></p></span><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Blog: <a href="http://www.alyhussein.com/" target="_blank">www.alyhussein.com</a></span><br></font></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 26 Feb 2018, at 2:13 PM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br><br></div></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div class="h5"><span>Hi Ali,</span><br><span></span><br><span>I also think one of the reasons Safaricom enjoys its position is its</span><br><span>willingness to engage despite the criticism it receives, in as much as</span><br><span>we feel sorry for the other operators they hardly engage with</span><br><span>stakeholders. In short Safaricom seems to have public interest at the</span><br><span>core of its strategy which might not be the case with other local</span><br><span>Telcos or tech giants.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Best Regards</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 2/26/18, Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Listers</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Here’s an interesting long read on the implications of Technology enabled</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Monopolies.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The argument for and against the thesis that only market forces can check</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the monopolistic behaviors of the Tech Giants is well articulated in this NY</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Times article.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The argument goes like:-</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>A combination of Activists (Listers, I hope you are listening and reading</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>😀), Anti-Trust Busters, Competitors and the cautious actions of so called</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Monopolists when the spotlight hits them, is largely responsible for</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>ensuring that consumers and the markets operate honestly, responsibly and</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>with the profit motive in mind.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Couldn’t help me thinking whether this combination is partly responsible for</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the New Safaricom we are seeing today. A company that is arguably larger</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>than life in Kenya and who in the recent past has been accused of the same</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>behaviors that the Tech Giants are allegedly guilty of.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Safaricom is definitely a better company than it was just a few years</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>before. They have embraced the ecosystem, released M-Pesa APIs on Github</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>(Yes!), funds startups in the Tech Ecosystem through its Spark Fund and is</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>generally easier to work with.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Here’s an excerpt to the story:-</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The implication is clear enough: Google and the other tech titans understand</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>that the landscape is shifting. They realize that their halos have become</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>tarnished, that the arguments they once invoked as a digital exception to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>American economic history — that the internet economy is uniquely</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>self-correcting, because competition is only a click away — no longer hold</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>as much weight. “When you get as big as Google, you become so powerful that</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the market bends around you,” ...</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Read on:-</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/magazine/the-case-against-google.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/<wbr>02/20/magazine/the-case-<wbr>against-google.html</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>@Walu, we can meet half way on our arguments on this issue. :-)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Regards</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Ali Hussein</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Principal</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hussein & Associates</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>+254 0713 601113</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/<wbr>alihkassim</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"We are what we repeatedly do. 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