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AIRTEL Attains 50 Million CUSTOMERS Across AFRICA
ZAMBIA’s telecommunications giant Airtel now has over 50 million subscribers across the African continent, its acting Managing Director Navdeep Kapur has disclosed.
This was revealed when the mobile service provider donated assorted items worth over 100 million Kwacha to vulnerable children in Lusaka’s Garden Compound.
Kapur disclosed that Airtel was not only celebrating Christmas with vulnerable children but was also celebrating its attainment of 50 million customers in Africa.
“I can comfortably say that we at Airtel now have 50 million customers in Africa,” said Kapur.
Airtel which started its operations in Africa in 2010 with a customer base of 38 million has achieved the 50 million customer milestone in 17 months of acquiring Zain’s operations in 16 African countries.
Airtel has since become the fifth largest telecommunications company in the world. It currently has 4.2 million subscribers in Zambia.
Kapur also said that his company will continue assisting the vulnerable in society adding that the donation it was making was worth slightly over 100 million Kwacha.
“This donation valued at K116.1million was in partnership with our cooperating partners world vision who accepted our request to partner with us in our pursuit to improve livelihoods of many Zambians,” he said.
Airtel has so far assisted over 450 schools countrywide and donated 450 pay phones to needy schools. The firm has set aside K800 million for educational projects in the country.
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Exhaust Blown Diffuser
December 25, 2011 at 9:13 am
You should also reduce on your astronomical call rates and improve on your pathetic services (network busy)not to mention your customer care service, where do you get those chaps from, its like everyday their tempers are high perhaps you dont pay them well.
Blazer
December 25, 2011 at 9:40 am
Ok that’s good news but your service you guys. . . . . U can do better I guess.
anti.-airtel
December 25, 2011 at 9:52 am
contrats 4 that…bt airtel u hav the worst network in zed…plz improve ur services and traffs 4 the beta
What the!!!!
December 25, 2011 at 10:14 am
AIRTEL is a useless network. The cannot even give you any benefits for using there network for example, mtn beeg and zamtel K1000 per day ( 6 to 6). As far as I am concerned these Indians are here to take our money and disappear when there tax relief ends. I cannot bother with them until after 6 years. Zain left when it was time to contribute to the countrys’ treasury. There tariffs are evidence that they are here to exploit us and not to help and do not plan to be here for long. Do not bother with these thieves. Where is Zicta in this matter. Toothless bull dogs as usual. We assume you have been paid well to keep quite. Let vodacon come and the true networks will remain.
Kunda Chibuye
December 25, 2011 at 10:19 am
Yes and I’m one of those millions. I must point out though that my other line on another is pretty much active. Congrats anyway.
mhango j
December 25, 2011 at 10:57 am
I hav gone BEEG and YELLOW and i will never go back to my vomitus. Useless airfail.
Beeg
December 25, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Ba mwenye fyonse kuyumfya nelyo u are failing to sastify our needs look at kcm they were boasting about investiment but they are busy reducing zambian personnels and increasing indians
fiderule
December 25, 2011 at 12:42 pm
airtel very useless network. Were did they even get all those customers? I wonder the service is pathetic..they steal from us and there tariffs leaves much to be desired..go mtn go and is BEEG Not ifyabupuba ati airfail or is it airtel suit themselves what ever.
van klyse
December 25, 2011 at 12:53 pm
lets go BEEG wit MTN..nt ba airfailures no network signal..
kaluluta
December 25, 2011 at 1:29 pm
U r pathetic.sinizabweza ka nkhongole ka airtel airtym dat i got coz of ur poor services.i wil neva recharge
Frank Malama
December 25, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Airtel! The Shitiest service @ Customer Care.
Maliseni Banda
December 25, 2011 at 2:13 pm
I wonder if the 4.2 million Zambian subscribers include those who have abundoned Airtel and only use their Airtel sim once every month. I work at a place connected to the business of phones and I can tell you MTN is the most prefered network.
Beeg
December 25, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Tumfwa ati ku lusaka ekwaba ba customer wabo sana but kuno copperbelt balyela ball mtn yali bacita kantu and i wonder how they count customer base yabo maybe bapenda ukufuma epo baishile ba zamcell nokufika lelo whether waliposa bena kupenda
Sibbuku
December 25, 2011 at 4:16 pm
So what?
Abena suwilanji
December 25, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Thou shall remain faithful to MTN,where we do BEEG things
Ben Andrews
December 25, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Fake service provider stealing tt thru wrong billing try 2claim at customer care not avilable ko 0977770097 hw do i ko it wen u have stolen my tt to use. Useless kapunjunjun network.
Air Mukwai
December 25, 2011 at 8:58 pm
learn to plough back to the community. you have accumulated a lot and now it’s your turn to do so.
Aintshit
December 26, 2011 at 7:40 am
Airfell is utter shit period thr jst here to syphone people monies but one tends to wonder what the regulator are doing coz they are well aware of what thz wanker are doing and yet they are not doing shit what wrong with our country kanshi anyway fyakwishiba imwe mwebaba ku airfel in am BEEEEEG
baba
December 26, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Airtel is useless. Nibakabwalala bafikala!
Dorothy
December 27, 2011 at 3:01 am
Could be happy to hear the statistics of how they are losing clients in Zambia. Airtel is a disaster in Zambia. But believe you me its the best in Kenya. Do you know that the caller music service on airtel has been in existence for 5 years in Uganda? We have had the service for not more than a year in Zambia. Airtel Zambia is backward void of services that other airtels in other countries have.
The Educated
December 27, 2011 at 11:44 am
Utter nonsense by the MD.You should be talking about how many happy customers you have of the K4.2m customers and how many plan to leave your crappy stinky bushit service wanna be’s.There is no service whatsoever!!!You have people mascarading as service centre agents when we the customers do not receive any service at all.ZICTA you will do good to grant VODACOM a licence so we can abandon this crap called Airtel once and for all.The numbers should plummet and Mr MD start doing a reseach per month on how many customers you are retaining and are happy with your service.Start by sending SMS’s to all customers to respond Y or N it will give you a clear indication of the quality of service.Do you have a service quality department?What does it do?
BA KOLWE
December 27, 2011 at 1:12 pm
HENCE THE POOR SERVICE! WAKEUP
Geloo
December 27, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Foolish, Frustrating Network
I BURIED IT ALL!!
December 27, 2011 at 1:50 pm
USELESS NETWORK FOR ALL I CARE….. LETS GO AYOBA!!!!!
The Unknown
December 28, 2011 at 9:13 am
Airtel. Top up 20 pin, make 2 calls of 30 seconds each, and balance remaining 4 pin. Now that’s stealing.
Napowa
December 28, 2011 at 9:19 am
Type “R” and sms to 4009 to get missed call notification at only k1oo. I only use Airtel on wednesday after 23hrs.
mwandu
December 29, 2011 at 6:48 am
Aircrap is what you are. Blackberry service is so pathetic, yet we pay K60,000/month. Here you are bragging about having 4.2 million clients in Zambia…..the question is, of the said number how many of them use the service regularly? You steal from us in broad daylight. Try calling the so called customer service, busy all the time after a number of attempts one is given a chargeable number to call. What nonsense!!!!! WE NEED ORGANISATIONS THAT PROTECT COMSUMER RIGHTS.