Aki,

My 2 cents.

It is important to look at both sides of the coin... we have often derided Telkom for never taking the opportunities and chances that their position gave them for decades. We said Telkom was rotting, eating from the palm of the tax payer. We prayed for some one with a fraction of a brain to give them a lecture on the mega-businesses they could create...null. Nothing happened. Now imagine if Safaricom was the same way, never taking up opportunities, never innovating, always assuming that one of the other telcos will take up this path or that and saying 'shame on you' when they don't.

Would we like Safaricom more then, would it be better for the shareholders, would the end user be happier?

Davis