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Customers at a Telkom Shop at Village Market. [Photo: WILBERFORCE OKWIRI]
India’s Bharti Airtel is in talks to buy Telkom Kenya, the country’s smallest telecoms operator, to create a stronger challenger to market leader Safaricom, three industry sources told Reuters yesterday.
London-based Helios Investment, which owns a 60 per cent stake in Telkom, is looking to partly cash out of the investment which it entered in 2015, the sources said.
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