Its still abit too early to judge, but l see Airtel burning their fingers on this porting thing. I still wonder HOW and WHEN Porting Access Kenya Ltd will recoup their investment of over Kes. 350 million into the porting infrastructures, before operation costs. Methinks they too are in for major surprises.

The company is called 'Porting Access' not 'Access Kenya'. Somebody confirm whether the investment in porting infrastructure was purely by porting access or CCK financed it Also, note that your line has to be registered in order to port, that makes it a bit hard to implement that sabotage strategy, that is coz you'd have register the 1 million lines first.

So you want to tell us that Airtel has access to the register of scom's subscribers? Do they even look like they care about registers? And who says you can only register one line?

Porting Access Kenya Ltd (please read in whole) is the local affiliate for Porting Access NV of Netherlands. The whole capital expenditure came from Netherlands ....... I think Access Kenya shareholders see Access Kenya only in Porting Access Kenya Ltd .......... with a light touch.

On the contrary @aydenjason, I'd take Airtel's silence lightly, noting their demonstrated fondness for agressive publicity - they would trumpet any sign of success. @Barrywhite, nice user name. Assuming they make say 50/= profit per port (after paying operators, overheads, taxes etc), they'd need around 7 million transfers to recoup investment. Unless, of course, they're paid a small amount (say 1.00) for each directory lookup, necessary every time a ported user makes a call. In this case, the new operator would make less money per call.