KENCELL PUBLIC PHOPNE BOOTHS CAN STILL BE SEEN IN KERICHO.
Everyone in this country Kenya knows that theformer Ken cell mobile phones net work company had its name changed to celtel after it changed hands from its previous owners to new owners .It is expected that the new managementtook over the former ken cells properties .
The opposite is happening in Kericho town .It looks like the people who were involved in the transactions during the buying and selling of the properties had no information of the public phone booths .The booths have been there lying idle .There is one between the rex-in bar and the Kericho printers and another one at the former Tengecha road Chai super market, which is now Dharshill hardware.
The machines have beenin good condition until recently when someone peeled off the cover of the wire that links the receiver to the main machine .It can not be easily known the reasonwhy the celtel phone company decided to stop providing the public with this kind of services but phones play a very big part in our daily lives that it isn’t a wise thing to let those machines to rot where they are instead of utilizing them.
The celtel phone company is wasting the machines .They better bring the services back to the people or sell them to other Kenyans who might be having the powers to run the services .This phone booths were useful to us and they are still useful up to new. The booths used to give us an alternative from the Telecom phone networks .If any unfavorable conditions or situations arose, they were always there as an alternative.*It has to be understood that whatever caused the former ken cell company or the present celtel company to stop the public phone booths services is known only to them and no one else in this country Kenya or else, if we are not well informed.
This machines can even be given to people to sell this services to the public just the same way the community phones do (simu ya jamii).
There are many people who do not have work or other ways of generating an income and here you people are leaving this machines to rot on the pavements ,lt isn’t a wise thought at all .If they are not getting enough customers to use the booths ,it could obviously be because of the prices of the service and they should have found for a better solution than leaving them to decay on the verandahs that way .Or if there is no better solution ,they could then better give them out as charity to someone or the government.
The machines were better than most models 0ofthis kinds of phones that have existed before .They didn’t use wires like the other models .The worked like mobile phones, the difference between them was that they one was meant for public use while the other was for private use .because this machines do not use wires, they skip some of the forces of nature that hinder the other models that use wires from working well.
The celtel phone company should bring back these services. The reason why this services was closed down is not known to some of us, but it is expected that it could be because of the lack of enough customers to use this phones or if not so, it must then be some technical problems but we just do not know the main reason why they decided to take allthe property and leave this ones hanging of the verandahs .This machines didn’t use wires and this could be an advantage against the other models of phones that are used by the other phone companies .
The phones used special cards that we designed and distributed by the former ken Cell Company and not cash.
What is wrong with having a wireless card phone? perhaps it could even be the only one of its type in Kenya ,yet we are leaving it to decay on the pavements .Card phones are just as good as any other phones and so if there wasn’t any technical hardships ,then may the phone company that is concerned bring back the services or if they had forgotten about them or perhaps ifby bad luck the staff of the current company weren’t told about them ,then may someone tell them about it .
With the current developments in technology, perhaps we could even be getting the services on credit .If what it takes to get a credit card or visa card is only your last pay slip, what makes it difficult for us to get the services on credit? We could even be using the phones and then the phone companies would go and deduct it from our salaries or go and take the money from the banks and then we would call it a step ahead in development.
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