Orange Kenya, Today unveiled a genuine mobile handsets
campaign dubbed Chagua Original through which subscribers will be able to
purchase 3G-enabled devices at discounted prices of up to 60 percent.
Press Release
Nairobi, August
28, 2012 -- During the campaign period, which begins today, subscribers
purchasing smartphones or 3G devices at all Orange shops will also benefit from
one month free internet access as well as free access to Wikipedia and
Facebook.
The devices that form part of the Chagua Original
promotion range in prices from Kshs 599
(down from the earlier price of Kshs 999) for the ZTE S309 handset to the ZTE
San Francisco retailing at Kshs
7,999 (down from Kshs 9,999). Also on offer is the recently launched Huawei Gaga, which goes for Kshs 5,999 (instead of Kshs 8,799).
The Chagua Original promotion comes just a month ahead of
the government’s move to switch-off all counterfeit devices on all of the
country’s four mobile networks by September 30 this year.
“We aim to ensure that none of our over 3 million plus
subscribers is affected by the switch-off on September 30. As part of this, we
have launched various competitively priced but high quality devices that can be
purchased from Orange shops,” said Telkom Kenya CEO Mickael Ghossein.
The telecoms industry regulator Communications Commission
of Kenya’s (CCK) has recently announced that all devices with non-authentic
Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers would be disconnected from networks by
September 30.
The IMEI number - the 15-digit code that every mobile
handset is always assigned upon manufacture by the vendor – can be obtained by
dialing*#06# or printed under battery for some models.
The number is used by mobile networks to identify genuine
devices and can thereby be used to guard against phone theft as all devices,
which have been reported stolen, are stopped from accessing the network.
When say a mobile phone user loses a handset, the
subscriber can call the mobile network provider and instruct them to blacklist
the phone using its IMEI number, thereby rendering the phone useless on that
particular network as well as other networks, whether the SIM is changed or
not.
To check if a phone is counterfeit, any user can send its
phone IMEI number to 1555, and will automatically receive an answer.
The CCK campaign, which began last week, aims to guard
against mobile phone theft as well entry of substandard devices into the
country.
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