The growth trajectory has been bent downwards, the lower tariffs have seriously dampened safcoms growth, the curve has taken some degrees to the horizontal and who knows?, the big winner "in the region" is Airtel, and it has made sure safcom and it's services do not become a threat and are contained within.

I listened keenly to Uhuru's speech but didn't hear about any new taxes targeting mobile airtime or did I miss it?

Howdy,
Safaricom is a responsible business enterprise and it has genuine interests for its customers.
It is not in our best interests to see Safaricom Make a Loss, what will thousands of dealers, airtime vendors, mpesa dealers, paybill companies do.

It is good for Safaricom to make a good profit for the sake of us all.
Consider that Safaricom, and in fact other big corporates and Parastatals serves as very good tax mobilixazion points for the government.
Now, We do not mind a moneyed government, do we?
But we regret the irresponsible expenditure and pathetic corruption.

All said and done: Let Safaricom make money and i can assure you it cannot go beyond the 3/= it charges.

KR,
G.

Barrywhite-voice revenue fell by Ksh3bn; data revenue rose by Ksh2.2bn.
If I can pretend to be very clever for a minute. What Airtel is doing is called business. Or loss-leading in technical jargon. You do anything you can to get rivals' customers. Once you attract them, you offer them your pricier products.
Apparently businesses have doing this for yrs.
Look at how Google is competing with Microsoft and Apple on operating systems...

Safcom has been inching upwards slowly, will it reach 4bob today? Wonder if investor fears have been settled slightly with Prezzo's intervention?