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<div>Just noticed that I'm getting responses from you but somehow my original posts are not getting published (hence loss of context). A bit disconcerting but probably just a message-queuing issue on the list server.</div><div><br></div><div>Signing off for the day. Will catch up later/tomorrow.</div><div><br></div><div>Otherwise, great discussion! The more diverse the thoughts/ideas/perspectives the better. It increases the chance that whatever comes out of it, if anything, will be of high quality.</div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy your day listers.</div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 2:35:04 PM GMT+3, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">LOL!</div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Wash, are you finyaing Patrick? :-)</div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Regards</div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><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
Hussein</font></b></p><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>AHK & 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 clear="none"></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 shape="rect" href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span><a shape="rect" href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" rel="nofollow" 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 clear="none"></span></font></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><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;"><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;"><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 clear="none"><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></span><span style="font-size:11pt;"></span>
<span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"><img src="https://t.sidekickopen07.com/s1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LNdFMd_KMKRbM7xW4Wzv6P2zlZNzW26tGP91k1H6H0?si=6190904865718272&pi=d112287e-600d-4174-ffef-492fcedeb203&ti=null" style="display: none !important; width: 1px; max-width: 1px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" class=""><br clear="none"><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120yqt7002081033" id="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120yqt76090"><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 2:32 PM Patrick A. M. Maina <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:pmaina2000@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pmaina2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydpd4f5cb01yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div>
<div>I have proposed several solutions Ali but they are not going through. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Hoping the moderator(s) is/are neutral in this discussions...</div><div>:-)</div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 2:23:12 PM GMT+3, Ali Hussein <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Patrick</div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">You articulate the problems well. How about you give us some solutions? </div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Here's what I think:-</div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">1. With a bit of help from regulators who focus not just on 'regulating' but enablement of the sector like CA tries to do (not enough but let's give me kudos for trying)</div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">2. Punitive response to 'market failure' against those who cause that failure? (What does that even mean? :-)</div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Regards</div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><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
Hussein</font></b></p><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>AHK & 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 clear="none"></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 shape="rect" href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span><a shape="rect" href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" rel="nofollow" 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 clear="none"></span></font></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><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;"><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;"><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 clear="none"><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></span><span style="font-size:11pt;"></span>
<span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"><img src="https://t.sidekickopen07.com/s1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LNdFMd_KMKRbM7xW4Wzv6P2zlZNzW26tGP91k1H6H0?si=6190904865718272&pi=bb198144-d05c-41ab-a426-80185ca73da7&ti=null" style="display:none!important;width:1px;max-width:1px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" class="" data-id="1541504184911"><br clear="none"><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039yqt4079095143" id="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039yqt80975"><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 1:35 PM Patrick A. M. Maina <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:pmaina2000@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pmaina2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div>
<div>Diversity of ideas is a good thing so I welcome your opposing perspective!</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>The issue with monopoly or concentration of power goes beyond abuse and reactive policies.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>When the risk to the economy and national security is so high due to lack of diversification, it is imprudent to wait until disaster strikes in order to act.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Strategic risk management has both pre-emptive and reactive elements, which should be balanced in tandem with exposure and severity.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>At the moment CA is heavy on reactive polices, which was good when Safaricom was a "start-up". But things have changed and tables have turned. It is now *Government* that needs to protect itself and the public from an increasingly powerful Safaricom.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>The risks (as outlined in my earlier msg) are too high to ignore. This is not about Safaricom, the company, its about prudent management of the economy.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>One company controls ~6% of the GDP: is the only profitable company in the Telecomms sector; is the top single taxpayer; and has an increasingly tight grip on multiple sectors of the economy... This is a big RED FLAG for anyone conversant with risk management. When stakes are high, you never put all your eggs in one basket.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Current status quo is a sign of market failure and a nonexistent (stifled/crushed) "silicon savannah" ecosystem!</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Again the real elephant here is the macro-level risks of *concentration*, the risks of covert abuse of resultant power, and whether the micro-level risks of proactive regulation outweigh the macro-level dangers of reactive regulation.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Brgds,</div><div>Patrick.<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 12:14:40 PM GMT+3, Ali Hussein <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yiv5441905104"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yiv5441905104" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Patrick</div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yiv5441905104" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yiv5441905104" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">You and I will never see eye to eye on this matter. I completely agree that abuse of 'monopolistic' powers is untenable. What I advocate for is a delicate balance of regulation, carrot and stick engagement. Take the Microsoft issue. Or the Google one. Yes, at some point the powers were abused. It is now being addressed by the European Union and if my memory serves me correctly the European Union was also at the forefront of clipping Microsoft's wings. The rest the market took care of. </div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yiv5441905104" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yiv5441905104" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">My take is this. Yours is a lazy (forgive me!) way of letting regulators off the hook. Regulators the world over unfortunately are still living in the age of the Telegram. The CA is probably one of the more progressive ones. Instead of denying Safaricom a license put in place measures that will ensure they play nice. On pain of revoking the license and including punitive fines like the ones the EU slapped on Google.</div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yiv5441905104" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yiv5441905104" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Let us be circumspect. Look at Zuku. For a long time they had a monopoly on the so called Triple Play space. What did they do with it but screw it up? For Everyone Safaricom, there is a Zuku. Let us create a playing field that is as fair as possible and leave the rest to customers to choose. </div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yiv5441905104" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yiv5441905104" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">My two cowrie cents.</div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yiv5441905104" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div><div class="ydp5b301169yiv6356708120m_5598538533672241946ydp1116d31cyiv3758495039m_-2421619070942463294ydpa5cd5b66yiv5441905104gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><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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</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 clear="none"></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 shape="rect" href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span><a shape="rect" href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" rel="nofollow" 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 clear="none"></span></font></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><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;"><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;"><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 clear="none"><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></span><span style="font-size:11pt;"></span>
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<div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">I think the CA Unified Licensing regime is obsolete and out of touch with modern realities (e.g. net neutrality, anti-trust and power concentration concerns) and would urge CA to seriously consider modernizing it.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">From a public interest perspective, granting Safaricom a broadcast license will be a *major strategic blunder* imo as it will potentially create huge headaches later on for Gov, should the need arise to clip Safaricom's powers in public interest. </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Governments elsewhere (e.g. US/Europe) are grappling with similar issues where ICT firms that were once celebrated national prides & darlings have transformed into powerful monopolistic ogres that destroy jobs, stifle innovation and destabilise the country (yet can't be easily towed back to line).</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Concentration of power into corporations is a major emerging concern globally (some are literally taking over governments behind the scenes and corrupting democracies for example). </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Closer to home, Safaricom already has several "power pieces" in place that could potentially evolve into a messy regulatory quagmire for GoK.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">1. As a dominant communication & data pipe, their uptime/downtime has a crucial impact on public well being and national security.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">2. They have an increasingly concentrated grip on kadogo economy thru MPESA. </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">3. They want to do "everything" (comms, data pipe, content, health apps, agri apps, edu apps, media, cctv, ewallets etc) and they don't shy away from using their market power and resources to create an uneven playing that stifles startups and innovators. This has, imo, resulted in a choked "silicon savannah" ecosystem that has failed to take off, denying the country billions in FDI, limiting jobs creation and lowering Kenya's status as a viable innovations hub.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Microsoft in the 90s was caught making similar power moves and if they were not regulated via an anti-trust clampdown, tiny briefcase startups like Google would not have had a chance to grow. Clipping Microsoft resulted in a *bigger pie* and led to significantly more revenue for the US government. </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Is it really plausible that one company can have total monopoly on ICT innovations, at scale, in the entire country (or is there a trail of local innovators who are casualties to giant copycat moves)? The argument that regulating and limiting Safaricom will be bad for the economy is *false* imo. It fails to look at the ecosystem gains. The overall pie will grow and everyone, including Safaricom and GoK will gain (as happened with Microsoft & US Gov)!</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;"><a shape="rect" href="https://qz.com/1317231/what-the-microsoft-antitrust-case-can-teach-us-about-regulating-big-tech/amp/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://qz.com/1317231/what-the-microsoft-antitrust-case-can-teach-us-about-regulating-big-tech/amp/</a></span></font><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">3. With GoK heavy reliance on Safaricom as the *only" profitable telecomms company that is a top taxpayer, the exchequer has placed all its eggs in one basket, which is very risky and unwise. </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">"Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is an adage that rings true in capitalist markets (because boom bust cycles are *guaranteed* over time, because thats just how capitalism works).<br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">There is no company in this world that is immune to boom-bust cycles, failure or natural/manmade disasters (including sudden catastrophic failure like what happened to former retail superstars Nakumatt & Uchumi - taking down thousands of dependent ecosystem businesses with them and destabilising the entire sector). </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">This lack of sector profits / tax diversity is a ticking time bomb for GoK. It is one reason advanced economies value sector diversity and create room for startups to grow into big companies without being stifled by dominant players.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">From a national security perspective, Safaricom's grip on multiple sectors make it a risky *concentrated target* (e.g. for espionage, cyber-attack or terror attacks) with major consequences for the gov, public and economy in general. </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">All these make Safaricom a *high-risk single point of failure* IMO with very limited fallback options, which is really *not* strategically ideal if you want a shock-resilient economy. </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">A default consequence, at the very least, should be a statutory requirement for high risk dominant firms to demonstrate national-level disaster preparedness and resilience (with independent quarterly audits & certification for continuity and resilience).<br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Anti trust actions should be considered as well to give "Silicon Savannah" startups a chance. Separate the 'pipe" providers, infrastructure providers and content/app providers to build resilience and create a conducive atmosphere for the overall pie to grow. </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Hopefully this shows how dominance is a real problem, even when it is not abused.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Good day,</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Patrick.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></div>
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On Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 1:25:32 AM GMT+3, Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:
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