Anti-trust rules won’t fix telcos woes
Friday July 23 2021
By JAINDI KISERO
Look at the battles between anti-trust authorities with technology behemoths such as Facebook, Google and Amazon.
The fight Chinese authorities have been having with Alibaba is yet another indicator of the changing times.
When you look at the trends, the picture you see is that anti-trust authorities are no longer obsessed with breaking up companies into smaller pieces.
I just don’t think that the government has thought through a clear strategy on how it wants the mobile telephone sector to grow and evolve, especially after it torpedoed the proposed merger of Telkom Kenya and Airtel Networks two years ago.