CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos
It's bound to be an interesting ride! ---- CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos // BusinessDailyHome The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ---- Shared via my feedly reader Regards, Nanjira. Sent from my iPhone.
It’s just a move to remove duplication of government functions. The thing to watch will be whether the competition authority will do its job of protecting the Kenyan consumer. Regards, alex From: kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+awatila=yahoo.co.uk@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 5:38 AM To: awatila@yahoo.co.uk Cc: Nanjira Sambuli <nanjira@ihub.co.ke> Subject: [kictanet] CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos It's bound to be an interesting ride! ---- CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html> // BusinessDailyHome <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html> The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ---- Shared via my feedly reader <http://feedly.com> Regards, Nanjira. Sent from my iPhone.
Sometimes I can't help but think that Bob Collymore's roles in Safaricom and those govt appointments are conflicting somewhere. Having a foothold in govt gives him a certain leeway to influence how things happen elsewhere, where he has interests. Just saying. On 5 January 2016 at 10:11, Waithaka Ngigi via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
This is interesting....
I can't help but wonder, why would these powers be shifted immediately after the bruising battle with Safaricom?
If you think about it, there are over a hundred different industries, yet only a few are *individually* regulated. Communications is one of them.
Why? Because of its broad reach, national importance and complexity (shared resources, security concerns, adhering to international standards)
That's why CA was setup.
Now, you take the power to determine if a firm is engaging in anti-competitive behaviour to a body that practically understands little about such a key industry metrics as an example, how many Telco Engineers do they have? Do they have live data they could use to say check on frequency Abuse as an example?
Do they have the guts to stand up to a Kenyan firm that makes Billions in profits yearly when it abuses it's dominance?
Waithaka Ngigi
Alliance Technologies www.at.co.ke *From: *Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet *Sent: *Tuesday, January 5, 2016 5:39 AM *To: *Ngigi Waithaka *Reply To: *KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Cc: *Nanjira Sambuli *Subject: *[kictanet] CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos
It's bound to be an interesting ride!
---- *CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>* // *BusinessDailyHome <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>*
The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ----
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Guys It's called Lobbying. Safaricom is just simply better at it than others. Having said that it's definitely a serious issue to remove the critical powers of regulation from CA and giving it to another agency ill equipped to execute that mandate. Ali Hussein Tel: +254 713 601113 On Jan 5, 2016 10:54 AM, "Odhiambo Washington via kictanet" < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Sometimes I can't help but think that Bob Collymore's roles in Safaricom and those govt appointments are conflicting somewhere. Having a foothold in govt gives him a certain leeway to influence how things happen elsewhere, where he has interests. Just saying.
On 5 January 2016 at 10:11, Waithaka Ngigi via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
This is interesting....
I can't help but wonder, why would these powers be shifted immediately after the bruising battle with Safaricom?
If you think about it, there are over a hundred different industries, yet only a few are *individually* regulated. Communications is one of them.
Why? Because of its broad reach, national importance and complexity (shared resources, security concerns, adhering to international standards)
That's why CA was setup.
Now, you take the power to determine if a firm is engaging in anti-competitive behaviour to a body that practically understands little about such a key industry metrics as an example, how many Telco Engineers do they have? Do they have live data they could use to say check on frequency Abuse as an example?
Do they have the guts to stand up to a Kenyan firm that makes Billions in profits yearly when it abuses it's dominance?
Waithaka Ngigi
Alliance Technologies www.at.co.ke *From: *Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet *Sent: *Tuesday, January 5, 2016 5:39 AM *To: *Ngigi Waithaka *Reply To: *KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Cc: *Nanjira Sambuli *Subject: *[kictanet] CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos
It's bound to be an interesting ride!
---- *CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>* // *BusinessDailyHome <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>*
The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ----
Shared via *my feedly reader <http://feedly.com>*
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By the look of things.. the fate of the tech and innovation sector is in a very bad state. If the Safaricom is a dominant player to this extent. The innovation spaces may become irrelevant very soon. On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Guys
It's called Lobbying. Safaricom is just simply better at it than others.
Having said that it's definitely a serious issue to remove the critical powers of regulation from CA and giving it to another agency ill equipped to execute that mandate.
Ali Hussein Tel: +254 713 601113 On Jan 5, 2016 10:54 AM, "Odhiambo Washington via kictanet" < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Sometimes I can't help but think that Bob Collymore's roles in Safaricom and those govt appointments are conflicting somewhere. Having a foothold in govt gives him a certain leeway to influence how things happen elsewhere, where he has interests. Just saying.
On 5 January 2016 at 10:11, Waithaka Ngigi via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
This is interesting....
I can't help but wonder, why would these powers be shifted immediately after the bruising battle with Safaricom?
If you think about it, there are over a hundred different industries, yet only a few are *individually* regulated. Communications is one of them.
Why? Because of its broad reach, national importance and complexity (shared resources, security concerns, adhering to international standards)
That's why CA was setup.
Now, you take the power to determine if a firm is engaging in anti-competitive behaviour to a body that practically understands little about such a key industry metrics as an example, how many Telco Engineers do they have? Do they have live data they could use to say check on frequency Abuse as an example?
Do they have the guts to stand up to a Kenyan firm that makes Billions in profits yearly when it abuses it's dominance?
Waithaka Ngigi
Alliance Technologies www.at.co.ke *From: *Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet *Sent: *Tuesday, January 5, 2016 5:39 AM *To: *Ngigi Waithaka *Reply To: *KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Cc: *Nanjira Sambuli *Subject: *[kictanet] CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos
It's bound to be an interesting ride!
---- *CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>* // *BusinessDailyHome <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>*
The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ----
Shared via *my feedly reader <http://feedly.com>*
Regards, Nanjira.
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From the consumer rights perspective on whose behalf competition law exists, I think it is critical to take the conversation away from business and engineering and the technology and always reference the impact a business has in/on society.
It is after all why we as Kenyans "license" business and with that same authority we can revoke that license if at any point we feel a business is hurting citizens or disrespecting the privilege of doing business with them in any way. (Hands up if you still can't get your cellphone company to pick up the (_____) customer service lines.) On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
It's bound to be an interesting ride!
---- *CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>* // *BusinessDailyHome <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>*
The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ----
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It may be more disturbing is that at this rate - we will be having stories in the archives about how great an innovative sector and Silicon Savannah Kenya really was really soon - or the rise and fall of the innovation space in the Silicon Savannah. We were hailed for being a "hotbed of innovation" recently. But if innovators will be constantly suffocated - there is little to hope for for innovation to have prosperity. Overall the tech sector is a major backbone of our recent economic prosperity. On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Rose Lukalo -Owino via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
From the consumer rights perspective on whose behalf competition law exists, I think it is critical to take the conversation away from business and engineering and the technology and always reference the impact a business has in/on society.
It is after all why we as Kenyans "license" business and with that same authority we can revoke that license if at any point we feel a business is hurting citizens or disrespecting the privilege of doing business with them in any way. (Hands up if you still can't get your cellphone company to pick up the (_____) customer service lines.)
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
It's bound to be an interesting ride!
---- *CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>* // *BusinessDailyHome <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>*
The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ----
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The question that must be asked is whether that success of the tech sector is encouraging or stifling the emergence of others and future growth and expansion and in so doing serving the public with newer, better shinier opportunities. Behind the scenes conversations within the tech sector suggest to me that emergent players choose to play safe and stay out of sight of the dominant players lest they be whacked into oblivion for daring to demand a piece of the cake. That doesn't serve the new players in terms of freedom to contribute nor does it serve the public in terms of availability of choice, competitive pricing and service. On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy < ultimateprogramer@gmail.com> wrote:
It may be more disturbing is that at this rate - we will be having stories in the archives about how great an innovative sector and Silicon Savannah Kenya really was really soon - or the rise and fall of the innovation space in the Silicon Savannah. We were hailed for being a "hotbed of innovation" recently. But if innovators will be constantly suffocated - there is little to hope for for innovation to have prosperity. Overall the tech sector is a major backbone of our recent economic prosperity.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Rose Lukalo -Owino via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
From the consumer rights perspective on whose behalf competition law exists, I think it is critical to take the conversation away from business and engineering and the technology and always reference the impact a business has in/on society.
It is after all why we as Kenyans "license" business and with that same authority we can revoke that license if at any point we feel a business is hurting citizens or disrespecting the privilege of doing business with them in any way. (Hands up if you still can't get your cellphone company to pick up the (_____) customer service lines.)
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
It's bound to be an interesting ride!
---- *CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>* // *BusinessDailyHome <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>*
The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ----
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It seems like we have been slowly entering a new phase in our economy. The dominant telcos seem to have regressed away from the innovation that helped them grow. My take on this is that since the government does very little concrete scientific/technological research, it is left to the few university-affiliated researchers and (the extremely hardworking) startup companies to invent new technologies before they run out of funding. Fundamentally new technologies always create new markets. Because the dominant telcos don't actually innovate any more, just rearranging product categories and offering the new things invented elsewhere, they quickly exhaust their market capacity and need to grow in other places. Since nature abhors a vacuum, all the places they could go have already been taken over by other similar telcos. Hence the number of mergers & acquisitions in the past few years. This leads me back to my earlier question. Is this a move to take control of the antitrust process? On 01/05/2016 01:12 PM, Rose Lukalo -Owino via kictanet wrote:
The question that must be asked is whether that success of the tech sector is encouraging or stifling the emergence of others and future growth and expansion and in so doing serving the public with newer, better shinier opportunities. Behind the scenes conversations within the tech sector suggest to me that emergent players choose to play safe and stay out of sight of the dominant players lest they be whacked into oblivion for daring to demand a piece of the cake. That doesn't serve the new players in terms of freedom to contribute nor does it serve the public in terms of availability of choice, competitive pricing and service.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy <ultimateprogramer@gmail.com <mailto:ultimateprogramer@gmail.com>> wrote:
It may be more disturbing is that at this rate - we will be having stories in the archives about how great an innovative sector and Silicon Savannah Kenya really was really soon - or the rise and fall of the innovation space in the Silicon Savannah. We were hailed for being a "hotbed of innovation" recently. But if innovators will be constantly suffocated - there is little to hope for for innovation to have prosperity. Overall the tech sector is a major backbone of our recent economic prosperity.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Rose Lukalo -Owino via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote:
From the consumer rights perspective on whose behalf competition law exists, I think it is critical to take the conversation away from business and engineering and the technology and always reference the impact a business has in/on society.
It is after all why we as Kenyans "license" business and with that same authority we can revoke that license if at any point we feel a business is hurting citizens or disrespecting the privilege of doing business with them in any way. (Hands up if you still can't get your cellphone company to pick up the (_____) customer service lines.)
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote:
It's bound to be an interesting ride!
---- *CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>* // *BusinessDailyHome <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>*
The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ----
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Technology never stiffles. It facilitates. Mind you Safaricom is a 100% technology based company. On Jan 5, 2016 1:13 PM, "Rose Lukalo -Owino" <rlukalo@gmail.com> wrote:
The question that must be asked is whether that success of the tech sector is encouraging or stifling the emergence of others and future growth and expansion and in so doing serving the public with newer, better shinier opportunities. Behind the scenes conversations within the tech sector suggest to me that emergent players choose to play safe and stay out of sight of the dominant players lest they be whacked into oblivion for daring to demand a piece of the cake. That doesn't serve the new players in terms of freedom to contribute nor does it serve the public in terms of availability of choice, competitive pricing and service.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy < ultimateprogramer@gmail.com> wrote:
It may be more disturbing is that at this rate - we will be having stories in the archives about how great an innovative sector and Silicon Savannah Kenya really was really soon - or the rise and fall of the innovation space in the Silicon Savannah. We were hailed for being a "hotbed of innovation" recently. But if innovators will be constantly suffocated - there is little to hope for for innovation to have prosperity. Overall the tech sector is a major backbone of our recent economic prosperity.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Rose Lukalo -Owino via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
From the consumer rights perspective on whose behalf competition law exists, I think it is critical to take the conversation away from business and engineering and the technology and always reference the impact a business has in/on society.
It is after all why we as Kenyans "license" business and with that same authority we can revoke that license if at any point we feel a business is hurting citizens or disrespecting the privilege of doing business with them in any way. (Hands up if you still can't get your cellphone company to pick up the (_____) customer service lines.)
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
It's bound to be an interesting ride!
---- *CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>* // *BusinessDailyHome <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CA-loses-power-to-regulate-dominant-telcos/-/539546/3021508/-/u0rm7ez/-/index.html>*
The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ----
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Regards, Nanjira.
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KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
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This thing is very tricky. I do not envy the new PS, Broadcast and Telecommunications. Enough said :-) walu. From: Rose Lukalo -Owino via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: Rose Lukalo -Owino <rlukalo@gmail.com>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos The question that must be asked is whether that success of the tech sector is encouraging or stifling the emergence of others and future growth and expansion and in so doing serving the public with newer, better shinier opportunities. Behind the scenes conversations within the tech sector suggest to me that emergent players choose to play safe and stay out of sight of the dominant players lest they be whacked into oblivion for daring to demand a piece of the cake. That doesn't serve the new players in terms of freedom to contribute nor does it serve the public in terms of availability of choice, competitive pricing and service. On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy <ultimateprogramer@gmail.com> wrote: It may be more disturbing is that at this rate - we will be having stories in the archives about how great an innovative sector and Silicon Savannah Kenya really was really soon - or the rise and fall of the innovation space in the Silicon Savannah. We were hailed for being a "hotbed of innovation" recently. But if innovators will be constantly suffocated - there is little to hope for for innovation to have prosperity. Overall the tech sector is a major backbone of our recent economic prosperity. On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Rose Lukalo -Owino via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
From the consumer rights perspective on whose behalf competition law exists, I think it is critical to take the conversation away from business and engineering and the technology and always reference the impact a business has in/on society.
It is after all why we as Kenyans "license" business and with that same authority we can revoke that license if at any point we feel a business is hurting citizens or disrespecting the privilege of doing business with them in any way. (Hands up if you still can't get your cellphone company to pick up the (_____) customer service lines.) On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: It's bound to be an interesting ride! ---- CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos // BusinessDailyHome The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ---- Shared via my feedly reader Regards, Nanjira. Sent from my iPhone. _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/rlukalo%40gmail.com The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ultimateprogramer%40gm... The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. -- Ahmed Maawy Executive Director - SwahiliBox / M-Power (CBO) Ambassador - Open Knowledge Director - Startup Grind Mombasa Software Developer - AJ+ / EveryLayer (KE) +254 714 960 627 Skype: ultimateprogramer swahilibox.co.ke m-power.or.ke www.okfn.org startupgrind.com ajplus.net www.everylayer.com _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
Hi Walu, He needs support from all stakeholders. Like the Digital TV issue, we must agree to disagree so that we can come up with the best solution for our budding industry. Regards<div id="DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><table style="border-top: 1px solid #aaabb6; margin-top: 10px;"> <tr> <td style="width: 105px; padding-top: 15px;"> <a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank"><img src="https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/logo-avast-v1.png" style="width: 90px; height:33px;"/></a> </td> <td style="width: 470px; padding-top: 20px; color: #41424e; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. <br /><a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank" style="color: #4453ea;">www.avast.com</a> </td> </tr> </table><a href="#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div> On 1/5/16, Walubengo J via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
This thing is very tricky. I do not envy the new PS, Broadcast and Telecommunications. Enough said :-) walu.
From: Rose Lukalo -Owino via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: Rose Lukalo -Owino <rlukalo@gmail.com>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos
The question that must be asked is whether that success of the tech sector is encouraging or stifling the emergence of others and future growth and expansion and in so doing serving the public with newer, better shinier opportunities. Behind the scenes conversations within the tech sector suggest to me that emergent players choose to play safe and stay out of sight of the dominant players lest they be whacked into oblivion for daring to demand a piece of the cake. That doesn't serve the new players in terms of freedom to contribute nor does it serve the public in terms of availability of choice, competitive pricing and service.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy <ultimateprogramer@gmail.com> wrote:
It may be more disturbing is that at this rate - we will be having stories in the archives about how great an innovative sector and Silicon Savannah Kenya really was really soon - or the rise and fall of the innovation space in the Silicon Savannah. We were hailed for being a "hotbed of innovation" recently. But if innovators will be constantly suffocated - there is little to hope for for innovation to have prosperity. Overall the tech sector is a major backbone of our recent economic prosperity.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Rose Lukalo -Owino via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
From the consumer rights perspective on whose behalf competition law exists, I think it is critical to take the conversation away from business and engineering and the technology and always reference the impact a business has in/on society.
It is after all why we as Kenyans "license" business and with that same authority we can revoke that license if at any point we feel a business is hurting citizens or disrespecting the privilege of doing business with them in any way. (Hands up if you still can't get your cellphone company to pick up the (_____) customer service lines.)
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
It's bound to be an interesting ride!
---- CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos // BusinessDailyHome
The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ----
Shared via my feedly reader
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KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
-- Ahmed Maawy Executive Director - SwahiliBox / M-Power (CBO) Ambassador - Open Knowledge Director - Startup Grind Mombasa Software Developer - AJ+ / EveryLayer (KE) +254 714 960 627 Skype: ultimateprogramer
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participants (10)
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Ahmed Mohamed Maawy -
Alex Watila -
Ali Hussein -
Barrack Otieno -
Brian Muhia -
Nanjira Sambuli -
Odhiambo Washington -
Rose Lukalo -Owino -
Waithaka Ngigi -
Walubengo J