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Airtel battles CAK and vendors in multi-billion airtime suit

Airtel customers line up outside an Airtel shop along Kenyatta Avenue in a bid to register their SIM cards before the October 15th deadline. [Denis Kibuchi, Standard]

Airtel Kenya has moved to court seeking to block the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) from investigating and taking action against the telco over alleged abuse of buyer power.

This follows a dispute with several of its airtime vendors that could see the competition regulator slap the country's second-largest telco with billions of shillings in fines.

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