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MTN SET TO WIPE OUT SAFARICOM DOMINANCE.
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mkagollah
#21 Posted : Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:33:00 PM
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Take over?Oh really?What are they gonna take over anyway?The 30,000 inactive subscribers?'Real Business Sense indeed'!!

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eldersensei
#22 Posted : Thursday, July 15, 2010 6:40:01 PM
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Lets see whether they'll manage to do what Zain or Orange couldn't. Im an active Yu subscriber and I we all want to see our network grow...
Cease the Moment and the Moment will echo.....FOR EVER!!
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tkzee
#23 Posted : Thursday, July 15, 2010 7:53:47 PM
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It will be a tall order for them considering the market penetration safcom has.I would expect some slight brand switching but that would be countered.Given that Safcom has already created switching costs thro' m-pesa and the likes it will be difficult.have you also realised the way they are slowly entering into data?its cuz mobile internet is the next big thing.i fear for the likes of access kenya.
''i can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies,but not the madness of people''-Isaac Newton
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guru267
#24 Posted : Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:59:33 PM
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Well all i have to say is that they'll all try and they'll all fail.... SAFARICOM WILL ALWAYS REMAIN KING OF KENYA
Mark 12:29
Deuteronomy 4:16
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Kulchaz
#25 Posted : Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:20:53 PM
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For any SA firm, Kenya should be the last place they would want to come in bragging and especially when when they are going to be dealing with a heavy weight though locally like safaricom! They try it and they will run out of this country very fast with their tails on fire and minus a few billions of rands. MTN should first consult Castle Breweries, Lucky 7, Media 24 etc before they attempt this feat!
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kenmac
#26 Posted : Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:32:12 PM
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>> the loyalty that safaricom enjoys makes it virtually impossible to dethrone it.



The key lies with the future and the other operators should focus on newbie phone users...that group around 16 & 17 years who are just entering the market. Give form four leavers some cheap network locked phones then sit back and grow with them.



safaricom loyalists acquired their lines long ago and wouldn't risk loosing their contacts. So let the other operators think of ten years from now, not some short sighted misplaced price strategies.
......Ecclesiastes
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the deal
#27 Posted : Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:40:59 PM
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Kulchaz wrote:
For any SA firm, Kenya should be the last place they would want to come in bragging and especially when when they are going to be dealing with a heavy weight though locally like safaricom! They try it and they will run out of this country very fast with their tails on fire and minus a few billions of rands. MTN should first consult Castle Breweries, Lucky 7, Media 24 etc before they attempt this feat!


and how many Kenyan businesses have succeded in SA? Dont tell me Olympia!!! Yet many SA firms have succeded here i.e DSTV...Mr Price...Steers...Old Mutual...Altech(KDN)...UUNET...Truworth...Stanbic...
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Kesh!
#28 Posted : Friday, July 16, 2010 4:28:09 AM
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....now bring in number portability and the prospect of all networks properly sharing the subscribers is a reality...although i heard them talk of an initial fee of ksh1000 which would slow down the process...
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youcan'tstopusnow
#29 Posted : Friday, July 16, 2010 6:18:54 AM
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Kesh!, that fee was reduced to only 200.
GOD BLESS YOUR LIFE
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VituVingiSana
#30 Posted : Friday, July 16, 2010 9:37:58 AM
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@the deal

Old Mutual is not the SA but UK 'branch' of OM in Kenya. OM of SA was not allowed to stay in Kenya pre-1990

Deacons (Kenyan firm) has franchises of Mr. Price, Wooloworths + others. Not owned by SA

Stanbic??? Puhleeze, even banks 1/2 the size (NIC, DTBK, I&M) make higher profits!
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett
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