Kencel,celtel,zain and now airtel started price wars which are now threatening its bussines.it was banking on numbers/volumes which has failed,number portability has also failed,3g internet is unknown...with interconection charges capped at 2.21 airtel is paying rivals dearly despite being in loses..rene mezza quit and has pouched some senior managers to vodacom...airtel has warned its busines is threatened.what options do they have b4 sinking?

I kept pressing on the fact that they will loose on their strategy and cheap is not necessarily good... they fired kenyans, pushed jobs to india, lowered KRA income (which from a different angle impacted the overall economy), affected quality of service and expansion on telcoms among other things.....
Today who is crying? read this extract..... “Stopping drops in mobile termination rates is hurting small businesses more since it is our callers who end up calling more on the market leader than the reverse meaning that we end up paying more,” Airtel’s chief operating officer Shivan Bhargava said in an interview

....and this was obvious from the very onset except to their management!!!

@Qw on trial basis in very few sites...hakuna pesa to buy equipment even the very cheap equipment from china.... plus shamba issues from hurli-- someone might be feeling this was a bad investment

They should sell to people who know how to run telecoms, ..I am thinking MTN here. Unfortunately, their model is structured in such a way that they probably don't own any equipment, land ...generally tangible assets which they can use to negotiate a good bail-out price. They have outsourced everything. Including technical skills. All they have is a middle to high level management staff (Indian), licenses, a name and goodwill that is low in value. Potential suitors, if any, will press them hard