We are experiencing these power outages everyday! Yesterday I called @kenyapower and was told the main line had tripped an engineers were looking at it. Yesterday but one I arrived home to darkness, but the drunk KPLC engineers were outside our gate so I went to ask them what the matter was, as they simply parked their double-cab and were doing nothing. They told me the main line had tripped and they were waiting for their colleagues to help sort out. On Friday (yes, I am reporting backwards), it was the same story. And these days I decided that it's rather expensive to buy newspapers to see when the "programmed" rationing is affecting my area, so I don't keep perishables in the fridge. I'd rather buy one day at a time. Maybe one day, we will have a competitor for @kenyapower. In the meantime, I pretty much believe we are at that age when KPT&C was the only telephony provider and you couldn't even imagine that it was a business they were in!!!!

For Airtel, I am actually considering walking into their office and terminating my line while asking for a refund. The spamming is too much and no amount of calls to Customer Service can stop them. So they should be kissing my subscription goodbye soon.



On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 4:05 PM, <alice@apc.org> wrote:
And my third award goes to @airtelkenya for spamming.

@airtelkenya, let's see how  it will endear you to customers old and new. Especially when forced to pay for those promotional sms's and music.

 We shall simply  vuka to "the better option"

Best
Alice
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Subject: [kictanet] Worst service providers

I am not sure if there is anyone else experiencing daily @kenyapower outages. And every weekend the so called "scheduled maintenance" they get my first award for the worst service provider in Kenya.

Coming close is @telkomKenya @orangekenya. I have never bothered with a landline. I am from the generation that never needed one. I applied for it for the first time two years ago. It took nearly 4 months to have it installed. Since then it has never functioned. But they do send bills :(

For @kenyapower I look forward to the day we do not have to accept mediocrity and can move to another provider.

For @Telkomkenya good luck

Best
Alice


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