Re: "Re: Orange & Facebook"

From: Mohammad Nadim <nadim.attari_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 22:51:50 +0400

Hello Hisham,

Great to have the opinion of a businessman on this.



On 30 May 2015 at 22:01, Hisham MIJJOO <hishammijjoo_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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> *Hello, In a few days, Orange will allow free and unlimited access to
> Facebook, for those who have subscribed to their packages, be it Prepaid[1]
> or Postpaid[2]. I have some questions: 1. Do you think this is a good
> thing? 2. Why is Orange choosing what should be free and what not for
> us? 3. Can we call this free service from Orange a
> "zero-rating[3][4]" service (joint market agreement)? 4. What if I
> want zero-rating service for another app (e.g. FamilyWall, or Twitter,
> etc), rather than Facebook? 5. Who is benefiting from this? Is Facebook
> "sponsoring" this free internet to kill competition (from other social
> networking services, or from startups rising)? 6. Is it in our
> advantage? 7. What if they give (zero-rating) "preference" to
> another service/application in the future (decided by them, and not us,
> the users)? Will it be a disadvantage to local startups? Best
> regards, Nadim Attari *
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> Well for a start a joint market agreement occurs when 2 or more companies
> market each others' products towards the same customer...
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> Pros and cons depend on the agreement... however, depending on the
> situation; if we are talking about online business, then it may cause great
> trouble in the marketing field as those companies will market themselves...
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> Its usual business to have agreements like that. LinkedIn can have an
> agreement with another company like emtel...
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> Same thing is happening to Google... Google lost some Search market share
> to yahoo as yahoo has an agreement with Firefox to be their default search
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> *Should we prevent it / Will it kill competiton?*
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> yes and no... We cannot prevent someone doing business in any form (be it
> legal of course)... however, there are regulations like the Competition Act
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> Competitors like Emtel have lots of competitive advantage over orange...
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> First and foremost Emtel focuses on service quality that attracts a
> different target market and as far as I know Emtel is cheaper!
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> And Yeah.. it will kill some competition... What I may call useless
> competition... those who are here 'pu fer bouku' and holds little market
> share. And that's a good thing.
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So you think the big companies should be in business, unless the small ones
have great ideas.




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> Innovation in business should be real in Mauritius and we do have some
> great minds; unfortunately most are stuck in a box...
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> Those 'agreements' will push those minds to think out of the box.
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> Concerning entrepreneurs, competitive advantage should be innovated and
> looked for elsewhere... I personally believe that competition will create
> more and true entrepreneurs and promote further development...
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> Hope this helps and motivates...
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> *'Go for Gold'*
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> Regards,
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> Hisham
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Regards,
Nadim Attari
Received on Sat May 30 2015 - 18:52:06 PST