As Mark says this was solved by multiple sim cards, dual-sim phones and getting the number you want.

Heavily reliant as i am on mobile data, i have had to crawl, pun intended, back to safcon. Talking of which wasn't airtel 3g supposed to roll out by end of last quarter?

The other 3 telcos need to up their own game. Prayer, as a pal keeps reminding me, is not a strategy. 

++++++
there's an app for that :-p

On Apr 9, 2011 9:46 AM, "John Doe" <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
> At the point when they (read airtel,orange and Yu) realise that Bonga
> points and Mpesa are as important as 3G, they will shake safaricom.
> 3G must be the starting point. Zap being the follow up. And given the
> base stations Airtel is rolling out are 4G capable, who knows what
> comes after that?
>
> On 4/8/11, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
>> All they really need to do is roll out even half decent 3G and tell people
>> theyll still be able to recieve money from mpesa and send to safaricom
>> numbers... which is in fact the case, just a bit cumbersome but real.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Michuki Mwangi
>> <michuki@swiftkenya.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/8/11 5:12 PM, Watson Kambo wrote:
>>> > MNP is only 7 days old why all this fuss ? Even when Equity came people
>>> > never moved the first day .. Airtel has alot of convincing to do .. but
>>> > if it plays its cards well they still have a chance and again its not a
>>> > one week thing .. So peter wait ....
>>> >
>>>
>>> Hypothetically speaking - Ii the operators said that its free to move
>>> until 10th April. We may have seen some traction to beat the free
>>> deadline.
>>>
>>> But since its not the case, i move when i move!. TIA!.
>>>
>>> my 2 cents,
>>> Mich
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