My Airtel conspiracy

These guys are always posting losses and their customer service is so bad. Kuna vile nashuku Airtel is just secretly funded by Safaricom to keep it alive and prevent any monopoly regulations coming down on them.

No, Indians are notorious for tax evasion. Airtel certainly makes money or they wouldn’t be around this long. They just engage in accounting wizardry to reduce their tax obligations.

Absolutely, how are they even afloat till now and have never reported even ever breaking even since…

Airtel stopped giving the African market priority the moment Jio entered the Indian market .They started out by giving free data for months to new subscribers .Indians wakahamia Jio in droves .
In order not to lose their home market to a new entrant. They had to focus most of their resources in maintaining market share. I think they also sold some of their African operations to inject capital in the Indian market.

Airtel Africa operations have been performing dismally , e.g in last year’s financial statement the cumulative profit of Airtel in the 15 African countries they are operating is less than the profit Safaricom is making in Kenya alone.

What I dislike about their customer service the most is that it seems to be outsourced, so most issues, especially concerning mobile money take days ,even weeks to be resolved when the same issues would take a few minutes to be resolved when it comes to Safaricom and Telkom. That is where Airtel lost the plot.
I think over time, Airtel Kenya should be liberalized. Currently Bharti Airtel owns 85 percent of it. That shareholding should decline to 51 percent over time ,preferably by GOK becoming the main shareholder, then when it becomes profitable, it be listed on the stock exchange so that its operations become public knowledge.