[kictanet] Is Telkom Kenya insolvent and should the Government bail it out? Again?

[Ali Hussein]

Listers

The trials and tribulations of Telkom Kenya are a sad chapter in the country's road towards actualization of Vision 2030.

What actually ails Telkom Kenya? 

What is the real reason behind its inability to leverage on its legacy systems to re-invent its business model?

Is one of the problems the fact that the Government shackled it with a nondescript, pedestrian workforce steeped in Moi era  non-performance ethos?  

Are there forces beyond the powers of the Management of Telkom Kenya (like Mpesa maybe?) that has made it so irrelevant in the scheme of things? 

In my humble opinion this has been a failed exercise in privatization. 

What did we do right in the Government divestiture of Safaricom in comparison to Telkom Kenya? 

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Taxpayers-face-Sh6bn-bill-in-foul-share-deal/-/1056/1870526/-/item/0/-/ign3ff/-/index.htmlu

Ali Hussein
CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd
Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd

+254 713 601113

"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb

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