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, ..
It has been a month since Safaricom unveiled its lifestyle product dubbed Safaricom Platinum (and Safaricom Platinum plus) aimed at giving Safaricom subscribers lifestyle discounts including discounts ..
You must have watched that ad, where this guy who works with a motorbike selling spare parts explains how his friends wonder how he manages to stay online “forever”. At the end of the ad he exclaims ..
Safaricom Flex was introduced in March 2017 to cater for a particular group of humans; those that used to call or text Safaricom that their data bundles should be changed back to airtime or text messages. ..
The Federal Communications Commission has ordered net neutrality to end on April 23, the agency formally announced Thursday in the Federal Register. The commission voted 3-2 in December to overturn the Obama-era ..
Kshs 4 is the amount of money you are probably spending every single minute whenever you make calls using your Safaricom line. If you are a business person who must get in touch with clients by the minute, ..
Over the years I have argued that as a country we have to prioritize our local companies and especially start-ups. And there are a number of reports out there that shows how important the small and home-grown ..
On the story asking why Wangusi was sent home, I mentioned that Safaricom dominance issue could not be the reason. Since then I have spent a lot of time thinking about the issue of Safaricom dominance ..
Jamii Telecom limited is back to ruffle feathers once again in the telco industry with the new low-cost data bundles offer. This comes at a time top telecommunication companies are enjoying massive data ..
Kenya is known to be one of the countries where technology has played a great role in changing people’s lives, but largely due to the MPESA phenomenon. Elsewhere, Internet is the tool that makes ..
By the close of business yesterday, Safaricom had ordered Challa Communications Ltd to refund subscribers who were billed more than once to check KCPE results. Following complains on social media, Challa ..
Safaricom’s half year profit hit sh 26.2Bn. The telecommunication company’s M-Pesa and data continue to be the engines of growth showing further progress during the first half of the year while ..
Buying Airtime can be a daunting task, depending on where you live and the amount of airtime you intend to buy. The task is specifically overwhelming for Airtel and Telkom, as those with these lines rarely ..
June 6 2017, that’s the date Telkom Kenya had the biggest opportunity to propel itself from third position to the second largest teleco in Kenya, but the once a upon a time monopoly in Kenya’s ..
Safaricom Flex Units, a product launched towards the end of March 2017, was meant to be this flexible product that allows you, the Safaricom subscriber, to enjoy data, voice, and SMS services without having ..
After being mesmerized by the salivating data offers from the newly rebranded Telkom Kenya, I rushed to town to buy their SIM card. After all, I had promised you that I’ll test their Internet, compare ..
I have been planning to write an article titled “Orange and Airtel have no idea on how to win against Safaricom”, an article that has since been overtaken by events. The article is no longer ..
Telkom Kenya is an iconic brand and has been in the market more than 18 years as the teleco’s heritage dates back to pre-independence days – the 1940s and 1950s, when its telecommunication network ..
The communications Authority has denied allegations that it irregularly awarded Jamii a mobile service license. The deal saw Jamii Telecom earn a coveted mobile service spectrum and a license to provide ..
We wish to notify the public that starting from 9:30 am today, we experienced a system outage affecting a number of core services in our network. This outage affected Voice, Data, SMS, M-PESA and Enterprise ..
Safaricom has launched “Tunukiwa Daily Offers” that will for the first time see the telco’s customers get tailor-made deals on SMS, Voice and Data. For the next 90 days, customers will be able to make ..
Eleven days from today Safaricom Flex Bundles will be celebrating one month anniversary since launch. At birth, Safaricom Flex Bundles was celebrated as the final freedom provider to Safaricom service ..
Airtel Kenya has launched its Free Internet for Schools Program in partnership with the Computers for School Kenya (CFSK). The partnership will see 30 Schools in Nairobi, Nakuru, Kiambu, Garissa, Kisumu ..
Safaricom has commissioned an ultra-modern retail shop at the newly launched Two Rivers Mall, as part of its strategy to improve access to the company’s services. The new shop, which is now the 46th retail ..
Safaricom has today announced a number of initiatives that seek to further increase the convenience of M-PESA as it continues to extend the gains of mobile money ten years after its launch in Kenya. From ..