Oct 19 2007
Safaricom awarded 3G license
For a whooping 1.75 Billion bob. That license fees plus the infrastructure investment means that we’re not getting any cheaper service soon 
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Oct 19 2007
For a whooping 1.75 Billion bob. That license fees plus the infrastructure investment means that we’re not getting any cheaper service soon
missed the blog moving party…nice new abode.
As for Safaricom, maybe in afew years Apple will let us unlock the Iphone, which by then should be 3G capable (right now its not), and we can use it on the Safaricom network. For now, i am really resisting the urge to buy the darn gadget. btw, UG was going ahead with Wimax plans…anything similar in the .ke horizon?
hey thx
The iphone is coming in November! Hopefully I’ll also be able to resist
Wimax is there but no one seems to be doing mobile just yet. Wananchi have a wimax thing up their sleeves so maybe they’ll go that way?
Eh, that iphone… I’m I the only one that doesn’t think it’s all that?
Maybe my luddite nature makes its allure fizzle.
1.75 billibob? Jeeeeez!
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