Unsustainable business model leads to death of a whole industry. Who will be next? In which sector?

This company would have survived if it had used "local talent", i suppose however "the local business community" miss-advised them, that you cant trust nywele ngumu, hasara huenda na ufala!

Why is the advert only talking about safcom and not acrossboard?are there no other players?

Sasa kwa nini wamezima sim card yangu ya Yu? Ati they will force me kuhamia to Airtel. Apana. Orange here I come.

Seriously @vvs??? They are DIRECTLY attacking Safcom! Or what qualifies as 'offensive' in your book? It's like going for an interview and instead of talking about what you can bring to the company you start bad mouthing one of the interviewees!!!

Anyway, Airtel [Or whatever name the company was going by at the time] tried it - with a bigger war chest - and failed miserably! I can still remember the [two - three] full page ads!

That's a comparison. Is Orange lying? There is nothing offensive in comparing prices/costs. We do that all the time. We have spreadsheets [which are shared] that compare prices of land, rents, investments, shares [PER, P/B, ROE, ROA] so we can make the BEST decision.

Orange is not saying that Safaricom is providing sub-standard service without proof. Orange is using PUBLISHED tariffs that are provided by Safaricom.

And it is choice. You do not have to switch to Orange for cheaper rates. I know many who have 2 lines and have started using their Orange line to call me. I too keep 2 lines. Airtel for cheaper international [including EAC] calls and much cheaper roaming especially within the One Network. I use Safcom for the wide coverage of 3G and M-Pesa.

I want to know if there are deals and ads are a good way to inform me abut them.

Until Airtel brought prices down, Safaricom [the owned by Mobitelea, Vodacom & GoK] was screwing us. I recall how it fought tooth & nail to keep interconnection rates very high. I have paid KES 25/minute for calls. And these were Safcom to Safcom!!!

If Safaricom is the BETTER network, let Orange make all the comparisons. Does it diminish Safaricom?

The vicious price war damage was a heavy blow. The regulator performed poorly back then. Monkey business indeed...! Did it ever pay corp taxes?

Sometimes people just want to argue,Go to the market and start criticising what other people are selling in the same market even if its true they will beat you like a burukenge because its offensive.promote what you sell without mentioning mine.

You took the words out of my mouth!!! I would also like to see the numbers!

Kenyans are not going to migrate because of Kshs. 1/= a minute difference! They refused to migrate when the difference was bigger, sembuse sasa??

Methinks as a country we lost. The current tariff charges are way too high. Mpesa services is pure theft. As a user, I would wish there are many players. Equity should have come on board to try and revolutionise this industry. This is a just a 'Monopoly' although in economics an oligopoly.