-Figures published Tuesday by well known Wireless Intelligence for third quarter of 2010

-Safaricom boasts 82% share of mobile market; benefits from success of M-PESA, 3G headstart.
-By comparison, its closest rival Yu has only an 8% share of the market. Airtel is no 3 with -40% YoY growth
-Safaricom has maintained its dominance due to being the country's sole 3G operator, heavy investment in new network technologies including WiMAX and fibre, and popularity of its M-PESA
-Safaricom's greatest threat is likely to come from Bharti, already in the process of implementing its signature streamlined business model




Round 1 lost, let's await Round 2
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=460849

Could this report have spurred some agressive demand for Safaricom yesterday?

But in all fairness, considering Airtel launched counterattack end of August, I think Airtel must be almost double no of subscribers now - placing them well second.

BongaNa40...

This is the most inaccurate report EVER! Yu in #2 position? No way! Airtel numbers have been greatly understated - should be at least thrice that...

Yu is a silent killer.It was kept is cost of operations down and is the most competitive in terms of tariffs and i have information on sale of Airtime and Yu and Airtel are almost the same indicating they are not far apart.

You may call it dustbin research but the fact of the matter is that anecdotal evidence is clear that Airtel numbers have gone up since Sept.I do not have a single YU number on my phone.And since September more than half of my monthly mobile phone expenditure has shifted to Airtel.

I have a YU line but havent used it in 6 months.

By the way many cooperate customer service centers e.t.c use Yu to make calls and many cooperates use it to make inter-branch calls on their GSM switch board router whatever thingy, it is very cheap.Perhaps if you talked to teens you would find that yu is actually doing well with them. The data on Airtel is concrete, they are loosing those who rushed for the reduced calling price but are failing in getting new customers where Yu is beating them.

Fighting safcom is like removing meat from the mouth of an hungry dog... but is it easy?

Vimto, your report is very old, it is talking of Q4 2009/2010, we are talking about Q3 2010/2011

sufcon is big and mean but i have my doubts about those numbers. with the club effect having come to an end (thanx airtel). sufcon may be able to hold on to their current subscribers but the battle has moved on to the new subscribers. and this is where YU is hooking the teenagers (just like tobacco companies). Did anyone catch the new orange data charges?very youth friendly.