Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Of Licensing and Reality

I can't drive a car without a licence. I can't get a licence without learning how to drive. I can't start learning how to drive without a provisional licence. Is a provisional licence irrevocable? I find that it doesn't but it does expire. Suppose it has expired I am I barred from getting another provision licence after previously failing to pass a driving test to get a licence? I find that it would be unfair to do that for some are real quick learners some are damn slow learners. Hundred times Edison failed before he found the breakthrough formula to create the bulb he so much wanted.

If we are going to continue giving full licences to the newbies so many accidents are bound to happen. Look for learner drivers we put even a placard learner. So that learned drivers can drive cautiously with reasonable consideration. Traffic regulators also treat learners with reasonable consideration.

If we shall want fulfilment of every one condition of operation for a mobile operator being established, then no mobile operator can get started for everyone starts at one. It's time provisional licences were made available so that who can try can do so. Of 10 companies trying out to setup mobile operators there is bound to be at least 3 which would be successful. These can be pruned further according to adherence to conditions of licence and other laws of Malawi.

It's time licence regulators revoked licences of the two for once. Only once have I heard Zain being warned. But how many fair trade laws, consumer protection laws have, even operation laws have been violated by the two operators and the rest of the private sector? How much transparency is in the private sector for the government to be the only one to be expected to be transparent. Food for also for Transparency International. For most trouble starts brewing from the private sector which try to twist government arms for its own profit at the expense of real lives. The duty of the government is also to protect people from people without fear, favour, or partiality.