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

Tue Mar 25 13:05:19 EAT 2014

I think its about time the Govt kicked them out. All they do is whine and
sit on assets e.g NOFBI, iPhone, plenty of Land, only existing landline
network, etc. I would have thought e would la Fiber where there is now
copper but they would rather ask for more money from the Govt

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Uganda, MTN wants to purchase Orange, that's confirmed, not sure about
> rest of Africa.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:58 AM, James Mbugua <jgmbugua at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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*
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world
>>>> will have a generation of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein
>>>>
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