I have been thinking about Safaricom and the impact of their alleged role in August eighth poll rigging. I am made to understand the company so far, in just a matter of days has already lost over 2 million subscribers. This is a grim picture of the future of the company in the communication market as Airtel equally gets the unfair advantage necessitated by Safari com's downfall.
Consider an arbitrary estimate, where the company is to make an average profit of ksh 1000 per subscriber per year. This implies Safaricom is already bracing for a loss of about 2 billion at the end of the year. I don't work with the company and so don't take my theory to be the gospel truth. Loosing 2 million subscribers in days means at the end of the year its subscription could plummete to less than 5 million.
Honestly, the company was adamant to cooperate with Louis Moreno Ocampo and Ben Souda in their attempt to retrieve phonecalls belonging to then President Uhuru and his deputy while they were having a case at the Hague; so outlandish that, same Safaricom( if they were the Service provider mentioned by Angaza network director, in his petition against a few supreme court judges) illegally exposed the telephone conversations of the supreme court judges.
The company must do a self introspection on its relationship with the government vis avis that with the Kenyan populace. The communication giant should never even think of colluding with beaurucrats to monopolize the communication industry at the expense of Kenya's democracy. Nations all over the world are today extra-vigillant against tumbocracy by some huge companies and amalgams being awarded lucrative government tenders but are used to subvert the will of the people.
Consequently it is imperative for the company to rethink its corporate social responsibility and relationship. If the country comes to hate the company, then RIP is the partying shot.
Consider an arbitrary estimate, where the company is to make an average profit of ksh 1000 per subscriber per year. This implies Safaricom is already bracing for a loss of about 2 billion at the end of the year. I don't work with the company and so don't take my theory to be the gospel truth. Loosing 2 million subscribers in days means at the end of the year its subscription could plummete to less than 5 million.
Honestly, the company was adamant to cooperate with Louis Moreno Ocampo and Ben Souda in their attempt to retrieve phonecalls belonging to then President Uhuru and his deputy while they were having a case at the Hague; so outlandish that, same Safaricom( if they were the Service provider mentioned by Angaza network director, in his petition against a few supreme court judges) illegally exposed the telephone conversations of the supreme court judges.
The company must do a self introspection on its relationship with the government vis avis that with the Kenyan populace. The communication giant should never even think of colluding with beaurucrats to monopolize the communication industry at the expense of Kenya's democracy. Nations all over the world are today extra-vigillant against tumbocracy by some huge companies and amalgams being awarded lucrative government tenders but are used to subvert the will of the people.
Consequently it is imperative for the company to rethink its corporate social responsibility and relationship. If the country comes to hate the company, then RIP is the partying shot.
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