Thanks Gerhard
Unfortunately, the porting fee extends the walled garden concept even further and thus discriminates and segments a target market for MNP
Great observation Barrack MNP is just an excuse , all those you have mentioned matter most. Cheers MM -----Original Message----- From: Barrack Otieno [mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com] Sent: 30 April 2010 18:18 To: mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke Cc: ke-internetusers-bounces@bdix.net; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Mobile Number Portability MM, I am just curious, does consistency of the company in terms of brand, perfomance and involvementin CSR affected MNP? Regards On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:13 PM, muriuki mureithi <mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote: perhaps
as you note for the high end. It would be interesting to see if the market leader does not make moves that consolidates its advantage with its war chest. This is what Mobilink continues to do. I noted that operators give some goodies for those who port.
BTW when is the service being launched?
Cheers
Muriuki Mureithi
From: Gerhard May [mailto:gerhard.may@gmail.com] Sent: 30 April 2010 17:06 To: mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke Cc: ke-internetusers-bounces@bdix.net; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Mobile Number Portability
Hello Muriuki,
market characteristics in Kenya require MNP to increase competitiveness in a market where one dominant player got 80% market share.
MNP will dilute the "club stategy" (within own network charges are low and to other networks very high) since networks can no longer be identified by the prefix (072x does not necessarily mean that the number is a Saf'com number or 073x Zain)
Note: in Pakistan 2.5m customers out of 97m have moved but in terms of revenues that could be easily more than 20% of the total market volume (and compared to the leaders 32% market share a significant percentage).
Gerhard May
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:55 PM, muriuki mureithi <mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:
Hi Jevans
Just come from Pakistan this week and they have an interesting model with the MNP managed by an independent agency. MNP established in March 2007 is among the earliest and customers pay a small fee to be ported. To date only 2.5m people have ported among the 97 million cellular customers. Operators ( 6 ) use MNP to poach but as the numbers indicate, this has not been successful for large movements despite the heavy ads. Typical porters are TOP not BOP to retain number mostly for quality and coverage issues. Price issues at BOP level does not appear to be addressed by MNP and therefore multiple cards phenomena still prevalent . BOP is only served when behavioural factors are taken into account family and friends packages are more significant than retaining the phone number. Competition is stiff with the largest operator Mobilink having a 32% market share.
Cheers
Muriuki Mureithi
From: kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke
On Behalf Of Jevans Nyabiage Sent: 30 April 2010 15:29 To: mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke Cc: ke-internetusers-bounces@bdix.net; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: [kictanet] Mobile Number Portability
Hi All,
Looking at countries that have tried to unveil the Mobile Number Portability, it seems no impact has been felt in most of them including developed ones.
Is Kenya any different? Do Kenyans really need MNP? Who will it benefit? Will it ever work as subscribers will be required to pay Sh1,000 to switch to another network.
Jevans
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