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Will safaricom survive
sparkly
#1 Posted : Monday, July 12, 2010 10:42:14 PM
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Airtel is planning to pump SH 12B into kenyan mkt. It will concentrate on rural areas, share infrastructure and bank on the number portability. Safcom will lose market share. Yu and orange will struggle to make money. Who will buy saf above sh 6?
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youcan'tstopusnow
#2 Posted : Monday, July 12, 2010 10:57:57 PM
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By the time these bozos start testing their 3g network safcom will have implemented their 4g network. They will always be a step back. Number portability won't be a big steal for them since the battleground is at the data front.
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guru267
#3 Posted : Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:40:10 AM
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sparkly wrote:
Airtel is planning to pump SH 12B into kenyan mkt. It will concentrate on rural areas, share infrastructure and bank on the number portability. Safcom will lose market share. Yu and orange will struggle to make money. Who will buy saf above sh 6?

@sparkly its a bit naive to think safcom is losing significantly... It saw kencel, celtel, zain, come and go and still gained market share... I.m back in nairobi and no one i knw uses zap or watever... They are all on M-PESA proving it should be bharti worried bout succeeding. Watch safcom towards books closure
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VituVingiSana
#4 Posted : Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:22:46 AM
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Not only will Safcom survive in the near future but prosper! Of course, post-MJ we could get an idiot!
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youcan'tstopusnow
#5 Posted : Tuesday, July 13, 2010 6:33:26 AM
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VVS, then it seems Buffett was right when he said, 'Buy into companies that are so easy to understand that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will'
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#6 Posted : Tuesday, July 13, 2010 6:40:31 AM
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youcan'tstopusnow wrote:
VVS, then it seems Buffett was right when he said, 'Buy into companies that are so easy to understand that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will'
Well, one of those I bought into... yep, it's an idiot!
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett
youcan'tstopusnow
#7 Posted : Tuesday, July 13, 2010 7:47:08 AM
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Nokia. Safaricom and Microsoft enter into deal. www.dyerandblair.com/ind...5&cntnt01returnid=82
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sparkly
#8 Posted : Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:20:55 AM
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@guru the indians seem to know a thing about operating emerging markets. Look at YU, late entrants and short of resources but they have managed to make a mark. Airtel is also the world's 5th largest mobile co by subscriber nos. The landscape will definitely change, but to what extent?
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mBiaLoss
#9 Posted : Tuesday, July 13, 2010 9:24:58 AM
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sparkly wrote:
@guru the indians seem to know a thing about operating emerging markets. Look at YU, late entrants and short of resources but they have managed to make a mark. Airtel is also the world's 5th largest mobile co by subscriber nos. The landscape will definitely change, but to what extent?


@sparkly..If we have a Billion Indians and 3billion chinese, then phone operators from those countries are likely to be quite big in terms of number of subscribers. One of my professor (he was chinese), once said that he wanted to go to china and sell syringes at dollar each with the aim of having each chinese buy..just one...making him a billionare at the end of it lol
As an investor I behave like a tick, patiently waiting on grass and larch onto the first cow that shows up. As an investor I dont behave like a tick...I jump off the the cow as soon as am fully engorged before it dies...
youcan'tstopusnow
#10 Posted : Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:39:55 AM
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mBia Loss, a pal of mine was talking of going to Beijimg for a month and selling sweets for 1 shilling at a busy street. His arguement was that at least a million Chinese a day would buy.
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