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. Peter On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Sam Oduor <sam.oduor@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com>wrote:
Hmm... Seems the Government may be yielding to pressure to raise the interconnect rates... The Zain CEO won't be the happiest guy around...
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/Focus%20shifts%20to%20...
-- With Regards,
Phares Kariuki