The Communications Commission of Kenya started a public awareness campaign to get mobile phone subscribers to register their SIM cards with their mobile subscribers. This, they say, will help reduce mobile related extortions and crimes. Users will take more responsibility of their SIM cards and be answerable for texts or calls originating from them. This… [Read more…]
February 25, 2010
Like some Kenyans I possess different SIM cards for different reasons. So I wanted to find out how much I did allocate to each network. I did an experiment by not discarding scratch cards I used in the months of December 2009 and January 2010. Here’s a snapshot of my collection. There’s a proportionately larger… [Read more…]
February 15, 2010
Bharti Airtel has began exclusive $10.7 Bn talks to buy most of Kuwait’s Telecom Zain’s African Cellular assets, the Indian firm’s third try to gain a foothold in a continent that offers the last opportunity for major subscriber growth. This move follows two failed attempts to agree a $24 bn deal with South Africa’s MTN… [Read more…]
February 15, 2010
Conveniently dubbed “Amua – raha mustarehe”. Yu is positioning itself as the mobile operator of choice of the masses by using Swahili in its adverts – arguably the most widely spoken language in Kenya. The latest offers from Yu: Make yu-yu calls at 1/= from midnight to 8am; 2/= from 8am to 4pm and 3/=… [Read more…]
June 26, 2010
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