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Monday, 1 September 2014

YUMOBILE TO BE SOLD FOR $120 MILIION TO SAFARICOM AND AIRTEL KENYA

The Essar group has signed an agreement for the sale of its telecom business in Kenya. 

Image result for PICTURE OF YUMOBILE LOGOThe signing came after CA (Communication Authority of Kenya) approved Essar’s YuMobile to be sold for $120million to Bharti Airtel Kenya and Kenya’s Safaricom Ltd.

According to Firdhose Coovadia, board member of Essar Capital, the transaction is an additional step towards attaining Essar Capital’s strategy of depriving Essar Global Fund investments within the global telecommunications sector.

Coovadia further noted: “We also think that the transaction with Airtel and Safaricom will offer much needed consolidation within the Kenyan mobile telecommunications market and offer clients with fewer mobile operators, equipped better to enhance service delivery and offer customers great products.”
The Essar group has signed an agreement for the sale of its telecom business in Kenya. The signing came after CA (Communication Authority of Kenya) approved Essar’s YuMobile to be sold for $120million to Bharti Airtel Kenya and Kenya’s Safaricom Ltd.
According to Firdhose Coovadia, board member of Essar Capital, the transaction is an additional step towards attaining Essar Capital’s strategy of depriving Essar Global Fund investments within the global telecommunications sector.
Coovadia further noted: “We also think that the transaction with Airtel and Safaricom will offer much needed consolidation within the Kenyan mobile telecommunications market and offer clients with fewer mobile operators, equipped better to enhance service delivery and offer customers great products.”
- See more at: http://techmoran.com/essar-sold-u-s-120-million-kenyas-safaricom-ltd-bharti-airtel-kenya/#sthash.rYp8xiNm.dpuf

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