<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dennis<div><br></div><div>I’m hoping someone has been misquoted. This is nonsense. And I’m deliberately not mincing my words here.</div><div><br></div><div>My points below:-</div><div><br></div><div>1. Firstly, it’s de facto that mobile money agents have become Telco agnostic. It’s in the interest of everyone that these guys have multiple revenue streams. The margins for being only a Safaricom Mobile Money Agent wouldn’t make commercial sense otherwise. That's why you sometimes find agents saying ‘Sina Float’</div><div><br></div><div>2. Commercially it makes sense to share Telco masts. In fact Airtel sold its towers to Helios. <a href="http://www.heliostowers.com/about-us/who-we-are/">http://www.heliostowers.com/about-us/who-we-are/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>See story on the sale below:-</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/airtel-sells-3-100-telecom-towers-in-africa-to-helios-towers-114070900934_1.html">http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/airtel-sells-3-100-telecom-towers-in-africa-to-helios-towers-114070900934_1.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>I ask, what is the problem the regulator is trying to solve that the market is already not addressing. </div><div><br></div><div>I’m worried at the creeping of too much regulation in this country. We need to ask ourselves whether we are a free market or a controlled market. </div><div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">AHK & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><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.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 30 May 2018, at 9:47 AM, Dennis Memusi via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">This might be in good favor to curb dominance, but on Safaricom's point of view, wont this be assisting rivals to compete with them?<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/companies/CA-could-force-Safaricom-to-share-agents--network/4003102-4584988-13qgwhez/index.html">https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/companies/CA-could-force-Safaricom-to-share-agents--network/4003102-4584988-13qgwhez/index.html</a><br></div></div>
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