Airtel loses about 130,000 customers in three months

Airtel whose market share was at one point boosted by the acquisition of the since defunct Yu Mobile’s subscribers, has struggled to compete in a market that is under the iron-grip of Safaricom. The operator that has decried what it insists is the country’s anti-competitive environment also shed subscribers in March PHOTO: COURTESY

More than 130,000 subscribers ditched Airtel Kenya’s network between April and June as the going gets tough for the Indian-owned telecommunications firm.

According to the latest data from the Communications Authority (CA), Airtel’s subscriptions dropped from 6,722,412 in March 2016 to 6,588,825 as at end of June 2016, as the operator relinquished 0.9 per cent of its market share.