by John Ambuli

Created on: July 04, 2008   Last Updated: July 05, 2008

KENCELL PUBLIC PHOPNE BOOTHS CAN STILL BE SEEN IN KERICHO.

Everyone in this country Kenya knows that the former 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 management took 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 been in 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 reason why 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

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