This bidder the Mount Kenya Consortium combines telecoms technocrats South Africa's Eskom Enterprises Zimbabwe's Econet Wireless (headed by Strive Masiyiwa) and the Netherlands' KPN Telecom NV with financial muscle from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the economic and political attenae of the Consortium Chairman Chris Kirubi who heads the Industrial Credit and Development Corporation...
For four and a half years Strive Masiyiwa has been battling to get a licence for his company Econet...
One of the firms which failed to win the contract is Enhanced Communications Network (Econet) whose boss is Zimbabwean Strive Masiyiwa...
