I think safaricom is discouraging people from going the "postpaid" way. As was previously noted, it is not really postpaid, just a modification of prepay where no scratch cards are necessary. Do they need postpaid subscribers?

Tito.

2009/9/16 henry kamabi <hkamabi@gmail.com>
Hi..

Orange,Zain and YU guys hope u c this..
I hope they come up with something the will render this effort useless...
I use orange/zain to make calls,Yu/zain to do data..and the other one to receive call and i dont regret..

regards,
henry


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
> i think The african market is not suitable for postpay. there are just
> too many prepaid customers that telcos offer post pay as a convinience
> after though
>

*Mobile users now make up more than 90% of all telephone subscribers
across Africa, a higher percentage than on any other continent.

*Despite the global downturn, Latin America’s mobile market will
probably continue to grow in 2009 albeit at a slower rate. Once the
economy recovers, mobile telephony may regain momentum for a couple of
years and then gradually slacken as countries reach mobile market
saturation.

*Average mobile penetration across Europe reached about 125% by the
beginning of 2009 while sustaining subscriber growth of about 8%.
Mobile use is so ingrained among consumers that by early 2009 about a
quarter of households across the EU27 had ceased using ordinary
fixed-line connections in favour of mobile phones and voice over IP
services.

<http://www.budde.com.au/Research/Global-Mobile-Communications-Statistics-Trends-Forecasts.html>


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