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muganda
#1 Posted : Saturday, April 02, 2011 4:11:51 PM
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Today is 2nd April, and all fools efforts are over. Thought it would be fab to keep track of shenanigans preventing mobile portability.

Is this thing working?
Has your application been processed?
Have you heard 3 beeps on calling anyone?
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muganda
#2 Posted : Saturday, April 02, 2011 4:23:16 PM
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A writeup by an Indian subscriber at wits end on how to port from his Operator holding him hostage over his postpaid line. Is it a sign of things to come? http://thomasgee.wordpre...-of-postpaid-customers/

On another note, Vodafone boots Essar out of India's no2 operator. Relationship had been strained for some time due to Essar wanting to list a company that had shareholding in VodafoneEssar http://www.hindustantime...bn/Article1-679874.aspx

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wakagori
#3 Posted : Monday, April 04, 2011 8:29:58 AM
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i dont see this thing taking off as such in kenya. Why port whilst i can still hold 2 SIMS - which is what most kenyans do/have. The worldwide average numbers that port is 4-10% of all subscribers.
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Cde Monomotapa
#4 Posted : Monday, April 04, 2011 8:37:56 AM
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My take is that they should make it less bureaucratic i.e. allow me to port from my phone as opposed to filling forms & queing @ the shops. Kenyans r busy people so they will opt for the usual two sims.
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selah
#5 Posted : Monday, April 04, 2011 9:40:57 AM
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Porting will work the question is how many pple will port.Aitel is doing a great job in advertising it lets hope they manage to tilt the balance of subscription base to their advantage.

But Kenyans are really incentive minded, Airtel should have another crazy offer to attract more immigrants.
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livie
#6 Posted : Monday, April 04, 2011 1:52:49 PM
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theres four sim phones now -
If you are going to be thinking only one thing, you might as well be thinking big. -Donald J . Trump
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mozenrat
#7 Posted : Monday, April 04, 2011 2:33:16 PM
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selah wrote:
Porting will work the question is how many pple will port. Aitel is doing a great job in advertising it lets hope they manage to tilt the balance of subscription base to their advantage.

But Kenyans are really incentive minded, Airtel should have another crazy offer to attract more immigrants.


And why would we want to do that... Kwani they're going to give us free shares in their profits?
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muganda
#8 Posted : Monday, April 04, 2011 11:23:48 PM
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Unconfirmed word from CCK: 250 subscribers ported as per lunch time of first day.

I guess they will know in 2 days. Then we will know if it works.
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tuvok
#9 Posted : Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:37:38 AM
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muganda wrote:
Unconfirmed word from CCK: 250 subscribers ported as per lunch time of first day.

I guess they will know in 2 days. Then we will know if it works.


250 in one day - nothing to write home about
that's ~7500 in a month if the trend is maintained. A drop in the ocean
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chris79
#10 Posted : Tuesday, April 05, 2011 7:09:39 AM
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tuvok wrote:
muganda wrote:
Unconfirmed word from CCK: 250 subscribers ported as per lunch time of first day.

I guess they will know in 2 days. Then we will know if it works.


250 in one day - nothing to write home about
that's ~7500 in a month if the trend is maintained. A drop in the ocean


And that's after Airtel has spent oodles and oodles of cash on the nikuhama campaign. Sometimes I pity those guys, I bet they were anticipating a million porting requests per month. Shock on them...
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