[kictanet] Orange to exit, CS to yank the NOFBI contract from orange

[James Mbugua]

Any truth to the rumours that MTN might take over Orange's operations in
Africa?

James


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:51 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>wrote:

> Orange persisted in enforcing bandwidth caps even on ADSL losing business
> to Zuku (Wimax and Fiber) which did not insist such bandwidth caps.
>
> Trust local shareholders + new local investors will get a Kenyan
> CEO/Business Leader to sort out Telkom Kenya.
>
> Think of Uchumi supermarkets and how it recovered under sound *Kenyan*leadership :)
>
> Regards
>
> Murigi / Stanley Muraya
>
> *"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one
> who takes a city." Prov 16:32*
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> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>
>> It's now clear that Orange will be exiting the East African market by end
>> of the year.
>>
>> In an apparent related development the CS has given Orange notice that
>> the Government intends to cancel the NOFBI contract. This is as it should
>> be. The Government is making the right move yanking this out of a partner
>> who unfortunately through either ineptitude or inability to read the market
>> or both has turned one of Kenya's Crown Jewels into so much confetti..
>>
>> I'm curious though what next for NOFBI? Will it be collapsed into the new
>> proposed PPP for infrastructure? I'm sure the industry will be following
>> this with interest.
>>
>>
>> http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Orange-exit-set-to-rock-telcom-market/-/1950946/2256276/-/format/xhtml/-/7wvdim/-/index.html
>>
>> *Ali Hussein*
>>
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