In two full page ads in today’s editions of the Daily Nation and the East African Standard, Zain has announced unprecedented low and permanent tariffs for both mobile calls and SMS messages to ALL networks in Kenya. In a move that is clearly geared towards wooing a large number of

In the news this week, Bharti Airtel which recently acquired 15 African operations of Zain including Kenya for over US$ 10 Billion reiterated that it will seek to empower local operations by developing its local human capital as part of its business strategy. This news comes after various reports last

The Safaricom fairy tale is clearly having a reality check. In almost one decade, Safaricom grew from being a low quality Kenyan mobile network with a few thousand subscribers to the most profitable company in East Africa with over 10 million subscribers. However, in the last couple of years, so