My question on today's topic. Are Frenemy and Coopetion terms alien to Safaricom's strategy? I observe aggressive canibalization forward, backward, laterally and upwards. With previous moves of backward integration to own infrastructure distribution - laying out of own fibre capacity reducing lease to capacity and forward integration of remodelling the airtime / scratchcards product distribution structure of their dealerships making it less lucrative for them to operate. Laterally through launch of peripheral services that would rather belong to their business partners email.e.g mobile money-banking, the big box-media etc. Isn't it unfair to compete with your suppliers and clients in the name of value chain innovation ? Lastly apart from mpesa transaction of less than 100 Bob, Please Call Me and checking for airtime balance which is the other Freemium service that safaricom is know for? Regards Timothy Oriedo about.me/Timoriedo On 7 Feb 2017 8:18 am, "Walubengo J via kictanet" < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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 <http://www.ca.go.ke/images/downloads/STATISTICS/Sector%20Statistics%20Report%20Q1%202016-2017.pdf> (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.
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