Never mind what Bob Collymore calls it but me thinks this is a way of reducing costs necessitated by the price wars.It's yet another reason for its shareholders to take a breath after a long period of nervousness since Airtel started its onslaught.For the employees they need to start thinking about how to invest their golden handshake.
Wazuans whats your take on this?

which will eventually lead to downsizing thats where its headed.... some roles will obviously be made redundant and this will call for firing or rather option to invite for a graceful resignation and it will be done several times until they have staff earning real peanuts wacha what RAO was talking about.....maybe good for investors since costs in all areas will be looked into hence anticipated reduction in expenses

(Namukhaywa)I wont walk with you on that line, the dog that has tried new and many tricks that never work is Airtel, from kencell to celtel to Zain now Airtel next?.. how many CEOs? what of staff retrenchments and still in the negative zone....

Safaricom does not own any of the buildings it currently occupies, they are all leased...

lets nt 4get that kenya has hd 10yrs of unleveled telecom playin field n forceful monopoly. Regardles of wat happened then, all is bound to change now that all seems to be leveling up. The upcoming mobile no portability wil b the 6th nail on that casket..

@ Forsport. maybe he want to sound professional on his comment ...

Airtel will never score in kenya. The only people who wil score with Airtel are consumers and the tycoons who make bilions when it changes hands.This going concern has never made a profit.It was the first in this market and never took advantage,will it when the market is saturated with players?For how long wil they compete using resources from the mother.If it had an IPO would you buy?So far,what is the diffrence between Airtel & Panpaper? Or the pastrolists who have heards worth thousands of shilings only to loose them to drought season after season,& later to cry for help from a gover they hav never paid tax to. Airtel Vs Safaricom is just like Retained Losses Vs Retained Earnings.

. Labda. Was also wondering about the “we”. And whether this is the same person who started the thread. I’m sure its not split personality. sorry i'm not saying anything useful.

As a consumer I am happy...

I hope you don't mean in favour of SCOM. This notion has been peddled around by politicians.....Remember when the IPO price was announced, they complained that 5-bob "too cheap". The market has proven them dead wrong - the price was just right.

Truth is: SCOM was the third player in the market, after Telkom and Kencell. By the time SCOM launched, Kencell had over 50,000 subscribers. Then things started turning and both reached 200,000 at the same time... when SCOM touched 500,000, Kencell was at 300,000

At one million for SCOM, Kencell had not even crossed the 0.5m mark.... since then, Kencell/Celltel/Zain/Airtel has just been making mistake after mistake and seeing dust all the way....

The field has been level. Nobody has ever been forced to stay in SCOM. In fact, I only joined SCOM recently because of M-PESA. But I still make all voice calls using Airtel.