Walu,   Wow, impressive, and I still stand by what I said and I bet I could earn a living reading "tea leaves"   Lucy K said the currently the regulator seemed to be more concerned with keeping the operators happy rather than looking out for the tax payer paying their salaries. In addition, the notion of an "independent" regulator was just but a theory, and government interferes heavily in the Regulators operations.   She added that operators are eager to keep the status quo, but in the meantime try to out do each other to steal, and or maintain the customer base. Meanwhile the government focuses on growing their tax base and hopefully looking to lower the bandwidth price in the process, but they end up being pulled in different directions by the various forces with the consumer being least in their priority.   Lucy Kimani said that Regulation is definitely required as even the big players of the west are regulated, in a capitalistic environment (read cut-throat) self-regulation has not worked, and is sure a recipe for disaster. --- On Wed, 8/26/09, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> Subject: [kictanet] What you said about the undersea Cable-Jan 2007 To: lkimani@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 7:26 AM By the way, got this from the past...you may want to know what you said way back in Jan 2007 when we had heated discussion on these undersea cables. I hope most of you havent changed your minds/opinions ;-) walu.       -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: lkimani@yahoo.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/lkimani%40yahoo.com