I have to give it up to you on that one. I honestly never saw it happening. That said, I don't think they'll pull it off that easily this second half. What's your say?

@mlennyma I think you know market share for voice is measured by number of active sim cards right???
So if I bought a zain,YU,Orange line it doesnt mean my safcom line becomes inactive does it immediately...

Infact it remains active for around 6months after use is discontinued and the price wars began barely 2months before the Half year end. And yet safcom still managed to record a loss of 1.6% market share...

When the sim cards that were dumped finally go inactive maybe a better picture will be seen

@guru, the long and short of it is that the zain initiated tariff wars have failed to ignite the sort of mass migration that they had projected, even with your 6 month theory. At 18k new customers PER DAY, safcom is proving to be like the proverbial mugumo tree versus the razor blade...

Prepaid subscribers churn if they have not made or received a chargeable event for 120 days from the date of airtime expiry.

Results show increase in churn from 27.6% to 31.2%

For smaller players, i believe its deal or die, (cede to price fixing) they are loosing money and customers, its also the most opportune time for vodafone to offer gova a price for majority shareholding, an extra 10% stake at 5.50/- maybe