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1. 1) The is issue is whether there is a contract between the two companies.

The answer is yes


there was a contract simply because, section 10 of the law of contract Act, [CAP. 345 R.E 2019].
"Provide that, nothing herein contained shall affect any law in force, and not hereby expressly
repealed or disapplied, by which any contract is required to be made in writing or in electronic
form or in the presence of witnesses, or any law relating to the registration of documents".
2. 2) The isssue is whether there was breach of contract. The answer is yes and this occur where
the Airtel Tanzania PLC decided to block all the three numbers from accessing their services at
all due to the resistance made by Arusha Art Limited when mobile phone number with
unknown product at the rate of Tshs 198,200/= per month hence the charges where billed for
two consecutive years but the law says under section 73(1) of the law of contract Act, [CAP.345,
R.E.2019]. Which is provide that " Where a contract has been broken, the party who suffers by
such breach is entitled to receive, from the party who broken the contract, compensation for
any loss or damage caused to him thereby, which naturally arose in the usual course of things
from such breach, or which the parties knew, when they made the contract, to be likely to
result from the breach of it."
3. 3) The proper course to be taken in the circumstances is that the aggrived part may claim in the
court of law for the compensation for breach of contract where penalty stipulated. Under
section 74(1) Of the law of contract Act, [CAP. 345, R.E 2019].Provide that "Where a contract
has been broken, if a sum is named in the contract as the amount to be paid in case of such
breach, or if the contract contract contains any other stipulation by way of penalty, the party
complaining of the breach is entitled, whether or not actual damage or loss is proved to have
been caused thereby, to receive from the party who has broken the contract reasonable
compensation not exceeding the amount so named or, as the case may be, the penalty
stipulated."

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