Telecoms operator Safaricom has received crucial support in its war with the Francis Wangusi-led Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) which wants to automatically declare it a dominant player in the market.
The support came from the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK), the consumer markets referee, which has poked holes into Mr Wangusi’s draft regulations that will from mid-June declare Safaricom a dominant player on grounds that it controls more than 50 per cent of the telecoms market.