1.2 million Mobile users at year-end 2009: Telkom Kenya

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With the addition of 428,000 net new customers in just three months, Telkom Kenya ended December 2009 with 1.2 million mobile subscribers. However, the operator still fell short of its target of two million registered users by year-end despite of an impressive growth in the latter part of the year.

Meanwhile, ‘Orange fixed-plus’ fixed-wireless CDMA-450 network ended 2009 with 250,000 customers, up from 236,700 a year earlier.

According to CEO Mickael Ghossein, the company invested around KES18 billion (USD225.3 million) on network expansions and upgrades in both 2008 and 2009 and plans to spend between KES10 billion and KES16 billion in 2010, with the introduction of a mobile banking product and possible entry into the country’s 3G market on the firm’s agenda.