Orange paid $385M for Telkom.

That equates to roughly $1.5M per subscriber....ie KES120M per sim card.

Everyone is talking about Zain's suicidal tendencies...but Orange is not suicidal..I hereby pronounce it DEAD.

RIP.

Why they bought telkom, only they can tell us. The copper cable, their main investment is so redundant just like the telegraph and moose code. Or maybe it was a convenient entry point into the kenyan market coz even their payphones are extinct.

@Mwanahisa

It pains me to even hear the word Telkom. When they had their time, they screwed us right, left and centre. Nepotism was the order of the day, blackmail was at high noon (they mess your line and when you call them to reconnect you, you had to cough a thousand to grease hands.

Parents did not allow children in the house make calls cauze if bills were inflated by Telkom, the blame would go to the children. I was whacked enough times on their behalf.

Then came telkom huaei data card and I paid 18,000 for it. The skalawags promised that a flat rate would be introduced within the end of month. Nothing happened.

Every dog has its day, the mongrel had its day, the golden retriver is having its day now, let the mongrel die a painful death.

Telkom should be allowed to die a natural death to wipe past painful experiences caused by it. If it does not want to die, we should murder it. Actually, at one time, I thought of burying it seven feet under. Telkom, please die, just die.

I have 3 landlines. One works. The other two haven't worked since last year. Everytime I complain they tell me the issue is within my compound, I need to buy cables, connectors etc etc.

I did that twice. The lines worked for like a week and shut down again.

Now I dont care. They keep sending me bills with fixed charge, VAT etc etc and I dont pay. There is no usage so why should I pay a fixed charge?

Last month they sent me a warning letter telling me they will disconnect and reposses my lines. WHAT A JOKE!!! Disconnect lines that arent even connected?

To hell with Telkom. They desrve their pathetic 250,000 subscribers.

What is the prefix for orange numbers?

As Thier MD said "Voice is Dead" This are tough times indeed for small Players , Copper exprt business perhaps ???

Business is hard and rewarding sometimes, thats for sure.

I rem the MS saying, "Voice is dead" *2

They defintely are not making any profit from their voice calls, subscribers have also shun them.

Only time will tell

I think subscriber numbers will tell us if this true or not.

Poor Orange, victim no 1 of the price-war!