Price controls in telecoms will kill innovation

Airtel staff attend to customers: Any controls interfere with the desire to shine. FILE PHOTO | NMG

About eight years ago, heated price wars were the bane of the mobile telecommunications industry with all three players then, actively engaged in some form of posturing.
The recent announcement that the Communications Authority of Kenya is considering introducing price regulation worried me.

History and future thinking must have us look at the present predicament, if at all it is one, from a different lens.

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