Telkom loses landline users in shift to mobile phones

Telkom Kenya has lost 52.7 per cent of its fixed landline subscribers in the 12 months to September 2012 due to changing consumer preferences and copper vandalism.

The latest data from the industry regulator, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), indicates that the number of fixed landlines declined to 70,390 in September last year from 148,816 in a similar period in 2011.