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Kenya: The battle for mobile phone market

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 @ 11:53 UTC

by Ndesanjo Macha

Countries:: Kenya
Topics:: Business, Internet & Telecoms
Languages:: English

Ka-Investor blogs about “mobile wars” in Kenya: “The stage for a bruising battle for control of the local mobile phone market is now set and the main target is the safaricom’s near monopoly 9.2 million subscribers (although some of them are absentee subscribers). Other battle frontiers are the cash transfer business, internet service provision and even the intra network call charges.”

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