So technically, we want to break up Safaricom so that these companies can gain some traction "Airtel, has made cumulative debt to date of Sh51 billion, according to latest audited accounts for the financial year 2015. Indeed, in the league of loss makers, only Kenya Airways, with their Sh54 billion lost in the most recent years, compares to Airtel. As a matter of fact, the numbers in the company’s annual accounts show that Airtel is insolvent and only surviving on life support from the parent company in India. Safaricom’s only other rival, Orange Telkom, has gone through exceedingly difficult trading and financial conditions over the past decade. This a firm that is technically insolvent. It has gone through several episodes of restructuring that have not materially changed its circumstances." ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh On 21 February 2017 at 23:48, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Jaindi Kisero gives us a glimpse of the competition study in the telecommunication sub-sector undertaken by Ms Analysys Mason on behalf of CA. See full article:
"I recently came across a report by the consulting group Analysys Mason entitled "A telecommunication competition market study in Kenya". Readers will recall that these consultants were retained by the market regulator – the Communications Authority of Kenya – to conduct a study whose results were to inform the crafting of a new framework for regulating abuse of market dominance by the big players.
As expected, one of the key findings of this study is that Safaricom’s market share in both the mobile communications and mobile money segments far exceed the thresholds where firms are typically presumed to be dominant."
http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/consumer-protection-a-means-of-cutting-...
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