I'm with you on this one. The BIG fat elephant in the room is that Safcom was prepared to keep charging Kenyans some of the highest mobile rates in the world to unfairly enrich their shareholders before Zain came in.

Monopolies like SCOM are bad for economies coz they have no incentive to lower costs and stifle innovation.

Now the billions saved by consumers can go into other sectors in the economy. There's bound to be a positive effect when like 50 billion goes to other sectors of the economy in stead of enriching Vodafon UK.

@ken1979,

again how Kenyam is suffferingcon, y play the nationality loyalty card now. If you guyz were Kenyans or cared bout Kenyans at all, as market leaders you should have been the first to reduce your calling rates. How Kenyan is giving mama mboga from kadogo economy conditions to use 3/ min to talk. we all know very few Kenyans can afford to top up with kshs 100. why give your fellow kenyans such harsh conditions so that they enjoy cheaper calls. I am thinking of thAT mamaa in kibera,korokocho n i all slums. she only makes 1 dollar a day./ her budget is 5 shs worth of unga, 5 shs worth of kerosene 5 shs worth of mboga 5 shs worth of sugar. in short she buys what she needs. where do you think she will get enough cash to buy credit for 100 so that she enjoys cheaper calls.

2) you call zain reactionary. then why dint you guyz stick with your super ongea which according to what i had used to stick at 8 bob through out the whole day and only reduces to 80 cents in the wee hour of the nights.kwani you think guyz are nyt runners or something.

3) if yoou dint care at all about zainz action, y did you even take your time writing that long post, c you let zain do what they do.

4) i here nowadays scanadd guyz work overtime 4 you, tell me when did you decide to lower your voice calls or give the 50% bonus to top ups last week friday.

5) maybe zain realised they cant beat you so they decided to spoil the market 4 u. lose lose situation coz i know it really hurts, the thought that you can charge a normal kenya less than 3 bob per minute.

6) the amount i've saved so far through zain is more than the penny mbili you guyz yours shareholders.

so next time you come lecture as about zain, pliz do your homework...ohh and lastly. you say the recption of the promotion has been really good and encouraging. really! which Kenya do you live in.

very angry at sufferingcon pretending to care bout kenyans kenyan here. bure

Where these safcon and zain employees continue to fight, we continue to enjoy low rates.

I see someone losing bonuses.... Dont get married to your employer.

Speaking for myself, I have no quarrel with Zain. Indeed, I congratulate them on their BOLD move. However, a better offer came along almost immediately after their announcement and I promply shifted to the BEST offer.

These for me are currently Safcon closely followed by Orange. Most of my calls are within the Safcom network and to landlines, so you can see where I am coming from.

As for the Safcom share, I am beginning to sense that I could make some short term play on it and come out on top. Watch this space!

Ok now who between these two is responsible for the "calls from hell"?

thats the spirit, i have four lines all operational, all the same number diff prefixes

@hisah regarding what?

Ok enough of this. I think it's high time NSE embarks on a national wide investor education. The 20cts is causing a lot of grief to the common shareholders. They simply cannot see this as an 8B payment from the profits. Safcom either buys out this small investors or risks more volatility on the share prices.

It is very difficult to buy the small shareholders. The only thing is to consolidate the shares, 1 for every 10.