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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On Jan 5, 2016 10:54 AM, "Odhiambo Washington via kictanet" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

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?

Waithaka Ngigi

Alliance Technologies
www.at.co.ke 

From: Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 5:39 AM To: Ngigi Waithaka Reply To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Cc: Nanjira Sambuli Subject: [kictanet] CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos

It's bound to be an interesting ride!

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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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Nanjira.

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