Good points there mate. -- Mutinda Kitana P.O. Box 55141-00200 Nairobi. Tel: +254-722944455 On Jul 17, 2015 12:33 PM, Stephen Munguti via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

grammar correction sorry typed in a hurry

never have we heard Tabitha Karanja

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Stephen Munguti <kamitu.sm@gmail.com> wrote:

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Safaricom is clearly dominant, the question are

Is its abusing its dominance? Should it be punished for being dominant regardless of whether its abusing this position or not? Can competition be enhanced by gagging one of the dominant players? Can we say that Safaricoms dominant position is what is causing the other players not to make profits? Will we end up with an ERC scenario?

If you critically examine the answers to the above questions, especially the fourth one, this debate is over. Casing point in the beers market we have EABL and summit and never had we heard Tabitha Karanja tell the competitive authorities to put pressure on EABL's dominance.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:45 AM, David Njuguna via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

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@Paul Korir, Safaricom's market dominance is not an opinion. It is a statistical fact.

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Josiah Mugambi via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

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You might have seen this if you are also on the KICTANET list.

Might be worth crystallizing some of this discussion for them. Worth even 15k bob

(nb: I have zero affiliation with COFEK)

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http://www.cofek.co.ke/index.php/news-and-media/1269-cofek-announces-open-wr...

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:41 AM Stephen Munguti via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

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as mentioned ealrier,

There is a pricing problem which either leads to undercutting or over pricing, both of them a result of a lack of long term strategies, implementation failure and a general apathy for understanding the target and potential markets. There is a human resource problem because of our greedy (its our turn to eat culture) and underhand thinking. We are most likely to steal and sink the company with little thought to future generations. To cover the stealing we push prices to the customer until it reaches a point they are unable to afford. At this point we create a black market and continue eating.

if you under price (or rob the company dry),  you are unable to constantly reinvest in your network and when eventually you wake up and smell the coffee, the technology will have leaped another level, and catching up will be equivalent to starting a new business. Casing point RVR, YU, Kenya refineries,  and the list continues

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Peter Osotsi via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

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@brian, the operators tried to use unorthodox m