We wish to thank all those who managed to contribute on Day 1, Consumer Issues. Feel free to throw in some belated questions for Day1 - as long as you keep the relevant subject line.
Today we move onto Day2 issues that deal with competition/ market dominance issues.
The current
data from CA (Q1, 2016-17) could be a useful guideline for the dominance debate.
It gives Safcom the following market
shares:-
a)
Mobile Subscriber population (69% of all
subscribers, closest rival has 17.5%)
b)
Voice Traffic (76% of all mobile voice traffic,
closest rival is at 13.8%)
c)
Data/Internet Subsector, (63.2% of
mobile internet subscriptions, closest rival is at 21%)
d)
Mobile Money Transactions ( 81% of all
mobile money transactions, closest rival is at 16%)
I am sure we cannot ask or blame Safaricom for what it may consider a successful state of affairs :-)
So please share your perspective as to whether or not Safaricom is dominant in the following sub-sectors and whether or not some intervention is required from the regulator in as far as making the market more competitive.
Lets have your views, floor is open.
----thematic areas---
1. Consumer Issues Day,
2. Competition Issues Day,
3. Innovators, Innovations &
Suppliers Day,
4. Infrastructure & Universal Access
Day,
5. Technology & Elections Day