[kictanet] Airtel Plans Africa Exit

Job Muriuki muriukin at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 09:02:46 EAT 2017


This is really sad news. Looking at Kenya's telecommunication market,
safaricom holds all the cards from coverage to favourable government backed
policies. This leaves competition with almost no lifeline.
Having worked with a company that builds telco's infrastructure I can
confirm 80% of the job is from safaricom while others just struggle with
the other 20%.

Am no economist but having one company domineering in any given sector is
bad for the sector and the economy as the main focus is make money. To do
this they cut back on employment and squeeze the supplies dry trying to cut
on expenditure but if multiple companies operate we get higher employment
level meaning more revenue to the government and healthy competition. The
government's technocrats need get ahead of this and correct it otherwise we
are not growing as a country or even as continent.

On 28 Jan 2017 08:40, "Ali Hussein via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Listers

Another one bites the dust?

I'm really curious as to whats going on in the Telco sector.

Bharti Airtel has announced that it will be exiting 14 African countries
within a year. The affected countries include: Chad, Congo, Gabon, Ghana,
Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Tanzania,
Uganda and Zambia.

The telecom operator is faced with poor performance across those markets.
Two years ago, when Airtel began talks to sell off its operations in
Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo Brazzaville and Sierra Leone to Orange
<http://mobilityarena.com/airtel-not-exiting-africa-despite-talks-to-sell-4-networks-to-orange/>,
the company had stated that it wouldn’t be exiting Africa.
Airtel plans Africa exit
<http://mobilityarena.com/airtel-exit-nigeria-13-african-countries/>

Is the African market too competitive or is the regulatory environment
skewed towards a few players?

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