Why aren't Kenyan regulators acting to curtail Safaricom?

569 views · Published 30 October 2018 · 4:47 · Indexed 27 September 2026

Channel: CGTN Africa · 2018 · News & Politics

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Kenya may be home to be biggest mobile market in East Africa, but of the 3 mobile service providers there, only one - Safaricom - is profitable. Bharti Airtel has been bleeding money for years, and Telkom, which is now 60% owned by Helios, is also bleeding money. Would a merger of these two firms, perhaps, give them the market muscle they need to take on East Africa's most profitable firm? That's a question CGTN's Ramah Nyang put to Telkom's CEO, Aldo Mareuse.

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