
I think letting the market decide prices is the way to go. Fixing prices, unless absolutely neccessary like in the case of oil prices may be counter-productive. It is true the Government may see reduced taxes in the telecommunications sectors, but taxes should not be an end in themselves. Savings made in cheaper communication costs will be used elsewhere and the economy will grow. Ease of doing business will increase and we will see many more opportunities for Kenyans. Same should apply to power and other utilities necessary for the production of goods and services. It is now cheaper to products some goods and ship them from China to Thika Road than to do the same in Athi River. And this can be attributed to the high cost of power. No country can claim to have developed without access to cheap power, labour, transport network and a reliable and cheap means of communication. This has nothing to do with constitution, it is purely economic. Even in China where small matters of constitutions do not matter, they know this. They keep the cost of living low. Someone earning less than USD 500 in China will have a better quality of life than someone earning KES 100,000 in Kenya.