There's something related in US law called first sale doctrine[1]. It was recently in the news due to a court case, which involved purchase of textbooks from Asia (at dirt cheap rates), which were imported then resold to students in the US (who were paying obscene amounts for text books [2]). I think the law was in favour of the importer [3]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine 2. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_n_feature_browse-b_mrr_1?fst=as%3Aoff&rh... 3. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/thai-student-protected-by-first-s... On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Mark Mwangi via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Its all in the money. People were willing to pay 1,000/- for 1.5GB and with Unliminet, they started feeling it was a raw deal. They just increase the data and swallow the lost revenue. I bet their bottom line is not affected even if they offered 4GB at 1,000/- They have the numbers to sustain it.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Tony Likhanga via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Other than the greed angle on their RA team, could they be battling some serious fraud or revenue leak? I read some interesting motive in Safaricom's move and their controlled responses.
*Disclaimer : I don't own any Safaricom line.*
Tony.
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