now very soon we shall be able to change providers without losing our phone numbers.......now that is a major blow to sufferingCON! however I wonder how the other services for each player will be affected.... (Daily Nation 6 May 2010) pg 31

@muganda, no interconnection charges in kenya will not be a worl's first. Sri lanka operated with no interconnection charges untill early 2010 when they introduced 0.60 cents charge due to deadly price wars. I'm sure if you dig deeper you will find more countries with no interconnection charges.
Personally i don't see number portability being effective in kenya. There is an article in
business daily concerning number portability.."CCK had initially proposed a reference database fee of Sh1,000 to offset set-up and upgrade costs, but operators have argued that it would itself act as a barrier to subscriber movement.
Other than the registration fee, subscribers will pay an extra Sh2 above the normal tariffs – to offset database query and one time porting or migration costs.
Switch from one network to another will also not be automatic, but will take a maximum of three days.
For example, in Pakistan, Service Provider Number Portability (SPNP) was established in March 2007, but to date only 2.5 million subscribers have ported from a total of 97 million cellphone users."

I have read that there will be a one off charge of 1k for portability proposed by CCK.Whose gonna pay that? and sh.2.00 extra charge on call tariffs.

So what's the noise all about,as far as I'm concerned the status quo persists.I think our broke GOK is just trying to earn some easy cash.

@Jaguar, they are called OPTIONS!!!

@mozenrat, "the rules will make it MORE difficult for Safaricom to review its charges downwards"...Really?????
There used to be a competition on 98.4 capital fm's the jam afternoon show called fact or bullcrap...your statement is b......p