Re: "Re: Orange & Facebook"

From: Hisham MIJJOO <hishammijjoo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 23:28:03 +0400

*So you think the big companies should be in business, unless the small
ones have great ideas.*


Yes Nadim,

Big companies create opportunities... Just imagine Mauritius without the
sugar estate owners...

For me a business is a business.. be it huge or small... Ideas,
opportunities and proper management together create miracles...

"When the media writer Ken Auletta once interviewed Bill Gates and asked
him “What is it that keeps you awake at night?”, Bill Gates replied that he
was not afraid of his competitors, but that he was wondering about two guys
working in a garage on something that he did not know about. And Bill Gates
was exactly right on the money, as usual. The only thing that he got wrong
in this case was that two guys named Sergey Brim and Larry Page were
working out of a dorm room rather than out of a garage on something that
they would later call Google."

No ONE is big or small, IDEAS are big, WHAT YOU DO is big...

As for those that I called useless competition are those that copy ideas
and present those with a little make-up... but with no difference or
innovation... they lose their time and our resources...!
Those peeps are not for innovation or development but for bucks!

Cheers,

Hisham

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Mohammad Nadim <nadim.attari_at_gmail.com>
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> Hello Hisham,
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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
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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
>> that should be consulted on the matter...
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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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>> Innovation in business should be real in Mauritius and we do have some
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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
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Received on Sat May 30 2015 - 19:28:18 PST