Going back to Mr. Prime ministers interventions - of protecting frequencies allegedly irregularly acquired by others. My model has not factored in frequencies yet - But I think CCK may have a bigger impact on the market by recovering frequencies held up by the Military (there's a band that ITU declared for public use
but previous reports indicated our Military seems to hoard this band - not sure if this has changed).
As to whether the President's and/or the Prime Ministers interventions are legal? It is debatable. However, I think the current legislative framework - Kenya Comm Amendment Act 2009 - provides for the government in power to direct the Regulator - BUT through Policy frameworks - rather than through specific or selected directives arising from which CEO had dinner with the President/Prime minister the previous night.
walu.
--- On Wed, 8/29/12, Edith Adera <eadera@idrc.or.ke> wrote:
From: Edith Adera <eadera@idrc.or.ke>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kibaki, Raila meddling stalls CCK actions
To: jwalu@yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 1:06 PM
Any reactions from Bwana Ndemo, who seems to have received one of the letters?
Is this also the reason why Airtel changed their rates to subscribers from 1 shilling (permanent!! - the word has earned new meaning) back to ksh 3 per minute? No one answered this question when I asked a while back. Airtel,
why the change?
As stakeholders, should we accept "regulatory capture" in this industry?
Edith
From: kictanet [kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Grace Githaiga [ggithaiga@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 12:36 AM
To: Edith Adera
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: [kictanet] Kibaki, Raila meddling stalls CCK actions
IN SUMMARY
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The President’s intervention, which amounts to political meddling in the work of an independent state organ, has for the second time in as many years stopped the industry regulator, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), from lowering
the Mobile Termination Rate (MTR).
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MTR is the price that operators pay each other for calls terminating in their networks from outside and ultimately determines call costs.
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Mr Kibaki, who has been acting on behalf of Safaricom and Telkom Kenya, issued the directive in a letter to Information permanent secretary Bitange Ndemo, stating that there should be no change in the MTR until a fresh study of the same is carried
out.
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga, jumped into the CCK’s regulatory mandate with a similar directive on behalf of yet another big business – Royal Media Services.
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Mr Odinga wrote to the CCK director-general asking him to withdraw the notice he had published of intention to revoke frequencies that the media house is accused of acquiring irregularly.
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