Please note that ironically, in 2003, the total number of people remaining to be connected to telephone service in Kenya stood at 7 million. CommunicationThe first results of this revolution in Kenya would be felt thirteen years later in 2003 when the government would begin massive retrenchments of staff of what were now called Postal Corporation of Kenya and Telkom Kenya. Emerging private mobile telephone companies provided service capacity, but remained too expensive for many citizens. These were organizations that were heavy in debt and not generating revenue sufficient enough to keep them afloat, leading the government to selling majority shareholding of Telkom Kenya to France Télécom in 2007. Multinational companies were locked in a bitter dispute with the Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union, over the introduction of harvesting machines.

Source: Standard Digital June 06, 2016 09:11 UTC