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Stiff competition forces shutdown of Swift Global

By - jevans nyabiage | 12yrs ago

By Jevans Nyabiage

Liquid Telecom, the new owners of Kenya Data Networks (KDN), has wound up Swift Global in a restructuring process that has made several positions redundant.

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