EDITORIAL: Punishing success is wrong

Kenya’s biggest telecoms operator and most profitable company Safaricom is once again in the crosshairs of the regulators because of runaway success that has left it as a dominant player in the marketplace.

Analysys Mason, the foreign company that the Communications Authority of Kenya hired to study Kenya’s telecoms market structure with a view to finding non-competitive behaviour and remedies to it, has produced a report with far reaching recommendations that, if implemented, would grossly affect some of the players.