<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Ferocious wars?!$! Are you kidding. Airtel got a drubbing. Annihilated. In 2009, they made a loss of us$60 million. $60 million!!! You do the math - Safaricom - 72% market share. All other players - Airtel included - 28%. Airtel were whipped in the Kenyan market. Mercilessly. All that Airtel did was destroy value in the market with price cuts.And it has barely made a dent on Safaricom. Last year Safaricom grew revenues and recruited more customers than Airtel. <br>Wonder how long they will keep up the charade!<br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Harry
Hare <harry@africanedevelopment.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Charles M <cmutsi@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, September 5, 2011 4:10 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [kictanet] Meza resigns from Airtel<br></font><br><div id="yiv121207486"><div>Interesting happenings here…<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/ohQXmB">http://bit.ly/ohQXmB</a> Meza is back in Tanzania at Vodacom, and will probably be forced to work in partnership with Safaricom in Kenya a company he has competed with ferociously in the so dubbed "mobile wars".</div><div><br></div><div>Harry</div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke"
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