August
Finally, Orange joins Kenya’s mobile tariff bandwagon.
Well, looks like everyone is now on-board the mobile tariff (war) bandwagon that started last week after Zain dramatically lowered their call and SMS rates. In particular, after that announcement, YU immediately responded as did Safaricom earlier this week. Now, as of yesterday, Orange is the last mobile network to
Safaricom responds to Zain and YU with the lowest call rates in Kenya.
It was inevitable after Zain and YU lowered their call and SMS rates in Kenya dramatically last week as posted on this blog. Therefore, in a move that is likely to retain Safaricom’s 16+ million subscribers it today launched a new promotional tariff that will see its subscribers call from
The Bharti Airtel effect begins taking shape at Zain with new low tariffs.
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