By the end of last month an internal memo by Telkom Kenya indicating that the struggling telecommunication company intends to fire 575 employees was shared with us. Later Telkom Kenya sent a Press Release ..
Complains against Zuku have been on the rise lately, forcing even some of the most Zuku adent fans to finally decide that enough is enough, Safaricom here we come. Safaricom on the other hand has acted ..
Key Highlights from the Airtel Africa PLC Financial Report Customer base grew by 9.3% to 99.7 Mn Reported revenues increased to $ 795.9 Mn, up 6.9%, with constant currency growth of 10.2%. This was the 6th consecutive ..
Safaricom’s (NSE: SCOM) has today announced that mobile agriculture platform DigiFarm is projected to outgrow M-PESA in the next five years. Launched in 2017 in partnership with iProcure, Arifu and Farmdrive, ..
BLAZE by Safaricom launched a new platform dubbed BLAZE LINK, an aggregator of e-learning resources built to enable young people upgrade their skills through online courses and empower them to pursue success ..
Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has announced plans to expand its e-commerce proposition Masoko to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa by year 2020. This is on the backdrop of an expected growth of Smartphones ..
South Sudan is set to enjoy its first mobile phone-based money transfer service. Trading under the brand name m-GURUSH (m-for mobile and GURUSH for money in Arabic), the new mobile commerce platform is a joint ..
As promised, we tested the Safaricom VoLTE Network, and it is awesome. Without exaggeration, Safaricom VoLTE voice call sounds as if you are talking with the person in the same room. The high definition ..
A friend who knows that I do not use Safaricom Internet just called to tell me that I no longer have reasons to not use Safaricom Internet, as, according to him, Safaricom suddenly reduced its data prices ..
Recently Safaricom announced that it had launched Safaricom VoLTE, a service meant to allow subscribers to make calls, not through the traditional CDMA or GPRS/GSM or even 3G voice protocols, but through ..
Following the passing on of the Safaricom’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr. Robert (Bob) William Collymore on 1 July 2019, the telecom giant has appointed an interim CEO. At a Special Board meeting ..
Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has today launched voice and video calls over its 4G network, popularly known as Voicer over LTE (VoLTE) and Video over LTE (ViLTE). The services are immediately available countrywide ..
I hate please call me texts, I prefer missed calls (flash). Worse than please call me is “Nisambizie credo”, especially when it comes from someone … (wacha tu). Now that those two options ..
The world over, telcos take advantage of consumers of Internet and data services to reap them dry by not allowing them to consume data bundles at their pace. An analogy by Kabogo who intends to sue Kenyan ..
As Safaricom looks to expand M-Pesa services to other countries within the African continent, efforts to acquire the intellectual property rights from Britain’s Vodafone have begun, Safaricom’s ..
Safaricom subscribers purchasing the all in on monthly bundles will now enjoy an additional 5 Gigabytes of YouTube free of cost for the next 30 days. The move by the telecommunication company has been ..
Bob Collymore’s latest tenure as the CEO of Safaricom comes to an end in August 2019, a tenure that he doesn’t want to renew given that he wants to focus on his health. As you can remember, ..
Huawei, the second largest smartphone seller globally, has today launched three smartphones in Kenya namely the Huawei P30 Lite, P30, and the P30 Pro. These devices appeal to different market segments, ..
Safaricom has announced that it has hit over 30 million subscribers on its network, cementing the telco’s position as the most preferred mobile service provider in Kenya today. The amount of subscribers ..
This year Safaricom reminded me that I joined the network in 2004 on a February date – meaning I have been a loyal customer of the network for 15 years. Year after year however, I have had less and less ..
A few days ago I watched a video of Tanzania fan of Yanga (Young Africans Sports Club) talking about how he was feeling bad after losing the match to arch rival Simba (Simba Sports Club). What made it interesting ..
Diamond Trust Bank manager, Sophia Njoki Mbogo has accused Safaricom of allowing the release of funds to a man said to have financed the Dusit attack that took place on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. Ms Njoki ..
Besides anyone asking for your academic credentials these days, the credit score is slowly defining a citizen’s worth in every aspect of life, beginning with the simplest loans you can get; Okoa Jahazi, ..
The caller notify menu also provides a ‘manage blacklist’ option that allows the mobile user to key in specific numbers you wish to block on caller notify with an option of adding or removing numbers.
The biggest gainer in the third quarter of the 2017/2018 financial year was Airtel Kenya. The telco gained an impressive 1.4 million new mobile subscribers, mostly helped by their unveiling of 4G within ..
For the millions of you who have been feeling unlucky like me when it comes to betting and corporate promotions like Maisha ni MPESA Tu, I have good news for you; you are actually eligible to win one of those ..
When Safaricom announced Maisha Ni MPESA Tu promotion, nothing really happened. Then Kenyans got alerted that the promotion had a surprise component – a surprise where if and when an MPESA user had reached ..
M-Pesa customers and agents will now be rewarded in new loyalty promotion launched by Safaricom. The promotion dubbed “Maisha ni M-PESA tu”, will see a customer rewarded every time they send and receive ..
Ever since Safaricom introduced MPESA in 2007, the biggest headache it has had is people performing MPESA transactions at MPESA agents’ shops without producing National IDs. This headache increases ..
One million. That’s the number of times mySafaricom App has been downloaded from Google Play Store. The number of subscribers who have downloaded the App could be way less, as individual subscribers, ..