Looking at the futuristic dream of technology machines that Kenyan operators aspire to be, any telecom analysts guessed Safaricom would go WiMAX way sooner than later.
Safaricom has been a voracious consumer of high access technologies in the past in apparent positioning as a cut above the rest.

One comm therefore, or any other WiMAX operator on Safaricom way was a candidate for two reasons. One is spectrum, which the mobile operator is short of and second, that acquisition was advantaged as it abbreviated deployment periods.

This is a company to watch, due to the technical advantage.