This matter has really bothered me when I have to lose in the upward of 500MBs whenever I travel out of Safaricom range for over 30 days. Can't we initiate a regional protest on this? I'm number 1 on the list. On 21 July 2012 08:38, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:
Grace
The question is: What is the regulator doing about this?
Ali Hussein
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com>wrote:
99% of Kenya’s 6.5m <http://cck.go.ke/news/2012/Mobile_Subscribers.html> internet users access it via mobile, of which Safaricom owns 77% marketshare.
In Kenya, when you buy a 1.5Gb internet bundle from Safaricom you pay 1000ksh (~$12). You’ve paid for the data, and there is no additional cost to Safaricom if you were to use that data today or a year from now. The whole concept of data bundle expiry is ridiculous, as noted by Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore when he visited the iHub:
“When you go into a petrol station and fill up your car, does the owner of the petrol station tell you to bring it back on Wednesday to take back what’s left in the vehicle? Of course not. So I ask, why the hell are we doing that?”
Read on
http://whiteafrican.com/2012/07/18/how-safaricom-steals-your-internet-bundle...
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