Guys
It's called Lobbying. Safaricom is just simply better at it than others.
Having said that it's definitely a serious issue to remove the critical powers of regulation from CA and giving it to another agency ill equipped to execute that mandate.
Ali Hussein
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Sometimes I can't help but think that Bob Collymore's roles in Safaricom and those govt appointments are conflicting somewhere. Having a foothold in govt gives him a certain leeway to influence how things happen elsewhere, where he has interests. Just saying.On 5 January 2016 at 10:11, Waithaka Ngigi via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:This is interesting....I can't help but wonder, why would these powers be shifted immediately after the bruising battle with Safaricom?If you think about it, there are over a hundred different industries, yet only a few are *individually* regulated. Communications is one of them.Why? Because of its broad reach, national importance and complexity (shared resources, security concerns, adhering to international standards)That's why CA was setup.Now, you take the power to determine if a firm is engaging in anti-competitive behaviour to a body that practically understands little about such a key industry metrics as an example, how many Telco Engineers do they have? Do they have live data they could use to say check on frequency Abuse as an example?Do they have the guts to stand up to a Kenyan firm that makes Billions in profits yearly when it abuses it's dominance?
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CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos
// BusinessDailyHome
The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies.
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Shared via my feedly readerRegards,Nanjira.Sent from my iPhone.
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