Ah Peter. So now the argument conveniently changes to transportation, housing and food. I know about these too and thanks for reminding me. However, the issue we are discussing in this list and that is relevant here is the exorbitant call rates applied by Safaricom before Zain threw the gauntlet at them. I know other fora where I can rant when it comes to transportation, housing and food.

What most people here are trying to tell you is that it is wrong for you to support unaffordable call rates and that you want the government to increase interconnect rates to enable Safaricom make high profits because KES 20 billion is a small profit in a third world economy.

Even Safaricom's No.1 employee, Michael Joseph would be embarassed by such warped logic. Why? Because if the boot were shifted on the other foot and he was managing Zain Kenya, he would employ the exact strategy to counter Safaricom's dominance under the circumstances.  I know I would.

My two cent.


On 13 September 2010 11:59, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Peter Osotsi <peter.osotsi@gmail.com> wrote:
What Kenyans want is cheaper transportation, housing and food, not cheaper calling per se. We'll talk more if we are well fed, and can reach our homes on time in an affordable way. We will talk more regardless of the prices if we can pay less for the rents. Cheaper calling is ok, but what we really want is not that. A majority of our people do "Pls Call Me", or talk for a minute or less. But we have no way of doing a "pls call me" on our rents, transportation or food.

A few years ago (3 yrs or so), a house used to cost 4.5million, now the same house costs 12 - 18 million. The question should be, how can Kenyans be able to afford a home to live in, instead of living in slums?

You get my whole point on this? Lets look at the bigger picture. Beating a small tech company to death in mass hysteria will not resolve the problems we are having. Safaricom didn't become a dominant player overnight, Kencell and Telkom Kenya incubated the process.
What I hate is our obsession with beating anything that comes our way thinking its our problem, even the constitution was supposed to solve our problems overnight, The coded language on the provincial administration is proving that nothing really changed.


Osotsi,

You sound to me like the "lone voice in the wilderness". As Ndambuki says, please speak for yourself. If you'd rather speak  for all of us, then go run for a Senator position and see if this stand you've taken will be popular with the masses.


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