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Kenya to Offer Mobile Number Portability from July

Kenya's telecoms regulator has announced that the country's four mobile networks will be required to start supporting Mobile Number Portability from this July. The regulator has been planning to offer MNP in the country for several years, but kept deferring the plans.  more

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Kenya's Subscriber Growth Reaches 40% in 2008

The Kenyan market saw some major developments in the second half of 2008: in Q3, fixed operator Telkom Kenya launched a mobile network, and in the last quarter of the year, econet Wireless finally managed to get up and running, more than five years after it was first awarded a licence. At the end of 2008, there were 15.90m mobile customers in Kenya. Annual net additions stood at 4.55m, up from 4.08m a year earlier, but proportionate growth fell from 56.0% to 40.1%. Fourth-quarter net additions increased from 0.65m in Q4 07 to 1.37 in Q4 08.  more

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Econet Denies MTN Interest in Kenyan Network

econet Wireless Kenya, which trades under the Yu brandname, has refuted local media reports that South Africa's MTN has offered US$450 for a stake in the company. The reports are "rumors," Chief Executive Officer Srinivasa Iyengar told reporters in Nairobi. The story emerged in Kenya's Standard newspaper.  more

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Kenya Poised for Huge Growth in Mobile Services

Mobile penetration in Kenya's telecom market will grow by 95 percent over the next five years, a market growth that will reflect intense competition among network operators and lead to a rapid uptake of mobile data services, according to a new report from Pyramid Research.  more

Related Tags: orange, 3g, mobile-data, zain, pyramid-research, mobile-money, Kenya


Econet Kenya Signs Up 200,000 Customers in 3 Months

econet Wireless's newest network, in Kenya is reported to have signed up 200,000 subscribers since it launched last November - and is aiming for one million customers by the middle of the year. econet Wireless trades under the Yu brand in the country.  more

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Econet Wireless Secures Kenyan Network Rollout Funding

New entrant into the Kenyan mobile market, econet Wireless (trading as Yu) has secured the Sh 35 billion (US$450 million) loan necessary to fund its network rollout. The deal had been delayed by two months after econet reported difficulties finding credit during the current global economic downturn.  more

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Econet Finally Launches its Network in Kenya

Kenya gained a fourth mobile network as econet Wireless Kenya (EWK) said that it will finally launch its network today - after five years of delays caused by legal problems and financial woes.  more

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Kenya Makes Second Attempt at Offer Mobile Number Portability

Kenya's long delayed plans for mobile number portability (MNP) seem to be back on track again after the regulator confirmed that the service would be launched next year. The plans, originally announced in 2004 were put on hold last year after the regulator cited the high costs of implementing the system.  more

Related Tags: orange, mobile-number-portability, number-portability, telkom, celtel, mnp, telkom-kenya, seamless, Kenya


Orange Launches Mobile Services in Kenya

France Telecom has launched its Orange brand in Kenya today - replacing the Telkom Kenya, the country's historical operator, following France Telecom's acquisition of 51% of its capital in December 2007.  more

Related Tags: orange, zain, landline, telkom, telkom-kenya, nairobi, Kenya


Econet Plans $300 Million Spend on Kenyan Network

econet Wireless's Kenyan subsidiary has said that it is planning to spend upto US$300 million on a network roll out in order to comply with its license obligations which require the company to launch its network by this June.  more

Related Tags: essar, celtel, econet-wireless, econet-wireless-kenya, Kenya


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