I have been shying away from Safcom, partly because I do not expect its share price to move up, because of the all the battles that have been going on. I use Safom along with all the other providers, although I barely use Zain, which for me is currently the most expensive provider. Kudos to them for bringing down the price, but that is as far as it goes. BTW, they had indicated that they would match each of Safcom's moves, but they have been unable to.

Now, as a customer of Safcom, I do not mind lower charges. But as a potential investor, if Safcom was to make ever greater profits, I stand to make a lot more money from my investment than the saving I get from lower call charges. Now, I can easily invest in Safcom since it is listed on the NSE. I cannot invest as easily in Bharti. I believe that is the crux of the matter. Most contributors on Wazua are investors and/or speculators. We stand to gain a lot more as investors than as customers, and the company we can invest is Safaricom. Little wonder why there is a lot of vitriol directed at Zain.

The bottomline is that even when I have no investment in a particular company, but that company has some bearing (like Safraicom does) on my other investments, I am afraid I have to care!

I am happy if safcom makes profits just that I worry if we are forced to go back to paying 12/- to call off-net.

As for KK, even I will use Total or Shell [I don't use independents coz I fear adulteration of fuel] if they are cheaper!

Bottomline: I value my 100/- more than Safcon's 10bn (or KK's 1bn) coz the 100/- is all MINE...

VVS:Its good to know you like profits. Businesses are for making profits otherwise they go out of business.

As for me, I actually buy where I invest regardless of cheap alternatives eg. I buy fuel at KK or Total, sugar from MSC only, bank in KCB and BBK only,buy unga from Unga Ltd etc. But that's just me!

Where is the balance? As customers of these comm companies we want competition to be there coz it benefits the customer. But, it seems like standing from an investor's point of view we want to chase safcon competitors out of town in order to get greater ROIs. So again l ask where is the balance?

Ngoja 2H