Regulatory intervention or disruptive competition? Lessons from East Africa on the end of international mobile roaming charges

Hi listers This is an easy but serious read on the dynamics that put our region on the world map on ICT The purpose of this paper is to understand the conditions that enabled the end of roaming charges in East Africa in 2006, achieving in weeks what European regulators had struggled with for nearly a decade. To do so it aims to explore the factors that drove marginalized operator Zain to seize the competitive advantage created by it having licenses in three adjoining markets--- http://www.emeraldinsight.com/fwd.htm?id=aob <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/fwd.htm?id=aob&ini=aob&doi=10.1108/1463669111 1131439> &ini=aob&doi=10.1108/14636691111131439 Very best regards Muriuki Mureithi Consultant Member Society of Telecommunications Consultants Success is not final; failure is not fatal , it is the courage to continue that counts .. Winston Churchill -------------------------------------------------------- cid:image001.jpg@01CBEEFA.ACBDDDB0 Landmark Plaza 13th flr Argwings Kodhek Rd -Opp Nairobi Hospital P O Box 62454 - 00200 Nairobi Kenya tel + 254 20 3673925/2637177 Cell+254 701 016555 <mailto:Info@summitstrategies.co.ke> info@summitstrategies.co.ke <http://www.summitstrategies.co.ke/> www.summitstrategies.co.ke Personal Cell +254 722 520090 <mailto:sam@summitstrategies.co.ke> mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke skype; muriukimureithi twitter: @mmureithi
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