Hey all, Not such a fun start to the week: My hosting company, Hostgator, are doing 'unscheduled maintenance', which I take to mean 'things aren't working and we're not quite sure why'. I wasn't able to extract from the fastidiously polite help staff when exactly this 'unscheduled maintenance' will be completed: He said 'literally as soon as possible', which can mean anything between now and eternity. Asante to everyone who got in touch - I'll send a quick message round once it's up again so that you can read that *hugely* exciting article :) Andrea On 4 April 2011 09:25, Andrea Bohnstedt <andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com

wrote:

Hey all,

I wrote a quick commentary on why MNP probably won't lead to mass migrations of customers:

http://www.ratio-magazine.com/201104013891/Kenya/In-Brief-Kenya-Introduces-M...

I also think that, looking at experiences in other emerging markets, there is usually no stampede on the first days, but the number of ported numbers picks up gradually.

Here's a short summary from market research company TNS that includes some interesting info on industrialised markets:

http://www.ratio-magazine.com/201104013889/Corporate-Press-Releases/Kenya-Pr...

Have a great week, Andrea

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