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iTax scoops Best Award and Exhibition Experience at a prestigious awards ceremony

  The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has been awarded the Best Award and Exhibition Experience at the just concluded 5th Edition of the African Public Service Day held in Brazzaville,…

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TECHNOLOGY

Top 10 Smartphones in Kenya Quarter 2 – April to June 2015

The trend today, in Kenya and elsewhere, is to own the latest and hottest smartphone. The phone makers also strive to out compete each other by unveling a new smartphone…

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KENYA TELECOMMUNICATION

Dominant telecommunication and broadcast companies will follow exclusive regulations Says CA Director Francis Wangusi

Today marked the official unveiling of the newest CEO in town Mr. Francis Wangusi, the re-appointed Director General of the Communications Authority of Kenya. Mr. Wangusi was appointed by the…

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KENYA TECH NEWS

Airtel and Redcross launch a first of its kind public emergency information service in Kenya

Airtel has teamed up with red cross society to launch the first of its kind public emergency information service in Kenya that will offer disaster management information on disease outbreaks…

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TELECOMMUNICATION

Airtel upgrades network signals in Nairobi even after failure to meet CA’s QoS standards

Airtel telecommunication company has completed phase one of its network upgrade in Nairobi Area in what will result to comprehensive change of legacy hardware and expansion of radio network elements….

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TECH NEWS

Mobile Money declared illegal in Uganda

Banking is no longer a thing of the financially upright in our society today. You do not need to show up with a title deed and all the weird documentation…

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TECH NEWS

The Airtel Unliminet should be restructured

Airtel Unliminet is one of the best things that has ever happened in the mobile phone sector in Kenya since M-PESA. It is the service offering that managed to turn…

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APP REVIEWS

For those who don’t know Okoa Jahazi Shortcode, don’t ask, use Safcom Speedy

Introduction If you are in Kenya right now, chances are you are using a Safaricom line. Actually, there’s a 65 percent chance that you are a Safaricom user. If that…

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TECH NEWS

Samsung Galaxy S6 buyers to receive free internet bundles from Airtel

Potential Samsung Galaxy S6 owners will receive unique data plans from selected Airtel outlets across the country in a campaign meant to offer users #UnlimitedConnections to their professional, family and social networks…

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TECH NEWS

Airtel Kenya named Title sponsor of the Kenyan Blog Awards 2015

This year’s BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards themed “Content is King” will get Gold sponsorship from Airtel Kenya in the event that will bring together various online content creators including corporate organizations,…

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TECH NEWS

GSMA Results of New Mobile Phone Gender Gap Survey

The GSMA on the 3rd of March 2015 released ‘Bridging the Gender Gap: Mobile Access and Usage in Low- and Middle-income Countries’, a report that examines mobile phone ownership by…

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TECH NEWS

Airtel Kenya launches new UnlimiNET bundles for unlimited connections

Airtel has introduced yet another communication bundle dubbed ‘UnlimiNET’ a service destined to offer Airtel customers the convenience and freedom to make #UnlimitedConnections to their professional, family and social networks wherever…

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TECH NEWS

Communications Authority of Kenya declares Safaricom a dominant ltd

For a long time now, Airtel has been pushing to have Safaricom declared dominant without result. According to The Kenya Information and Communications Act section 84W a company is declared…

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TECH NEWS

Airtel and UP Magazine merge to award change makers in the society

‘Put into practice what you learn’ may be a common saying thrown around in the society but Sharon Nyambane is one who lives by it and is now making a…

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TECHNOLOGY

Pre-Order for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus at the nearest Airtel outlet

Kenyans can now pre-register for the two flagship gadgets and biggest advancements in the manufacturer’s history the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus. The iPhone, which will soon be available…

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TECH NEWS

Happy holidays from Airtel !

Airtel customers now have an opportunity to win Kshs 1 million in a 90 day promotion dubbed ‘Chemsha Bongo‘  a move meant to offer customers the chance to have fun…

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OPINION

Zuku leads:Top TEN companies with poor customer care services

This is a continuation from last week’s evaluation of customer care services provided by companies we depend on for services. We agreed on well established customer care and efficient contact…

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STARTUPS TECH NEWS

Kenyan Startup Echo-Mobile partners IBM and Airtel to track Ebola in West Africa

Echo Mobile, a Kenyan start up specializing in the use of SMS to give underserved communities a voice is working with Airtel and IBM Research Africa to help communities in…

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TECH NEWS

Airtel reduces rates, offers free incoming calls while roaming in Rwanda

Just days after a null discussion over scrap of roaming rates between Safaricom and the Rwandan government, rival telecommunications company Airtel has rolled out new cross-border charges with upto 60%…

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GADGETS AND DEVICES

‘Carrier Billing’ to recognize app developers and publishers

Search engine Google has talks underway with Telecommunications Company Airtel on a deal that may see the two parties merge in Google’s digital items payment where customers will now pay…

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TECH NEWS

Airtel unveils Airtel Money Premier VISA card

Besides entertainment and data packages offered by mobile operators, Premier products and services in the telecommunication industry has become the new profit catchment. High end users today enjoy special treatments…

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TECH NEWS

Airtel aims at cutting operation costs in tower divestment.

Bharti Airtel has announced divestment of over 3500 telecoms towers from Airtel to Eaton Towers, an independent telecom tower company in Africa with a diversified geographical tower portfolio in which…

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TECH NEWS

Essar’s YuMobile officially closes acquisition deal with Safaricom and Airtel.

Essar Telkom Yu’s parent company has officially closed the acquisition deal with leading telecommunication companies Safaricom and Airtel for $120million by signing binding agreements in the transaction that has received…

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TECH NEWS

Rwanda’s Transition Hour to 4G services draws close.

September 1, 2014 will mark the transition of Rwanda’s telecommunication services to the 4G LTE internet which has gotten internet firms and telcos competing for the bigger share of subscribers in…

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TECH NEWS

Don’t be excited yet, Equity Bank might not pull the mobile money business

It’s been a month since I told a close friend of the plan Equity Bank has on mobile money business yet the excitement I saw in him is still very…

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TECH NEWS

Any reason for telecommunication’s big fish to get scared ahead of Equity’s MVNOs?

Kenya’s leading bank Equity is set to kick-off its mobile telecoms service in the next two months in which it will mirror all its banking services into the mobile phone….

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TECH NEWS

My Safaricom line should be ads free

Two days ago in a restaurant in Nakuru, a friend of mine received a text message from Safaricom. The message, he says, read, “You have qualified for a GOtv decoder”….

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TECH NEWS

Possible deal in talks over M-Pesa fees between rival companies Airtel and Safaricom.

Telecommunications companies; Airtel and Safaricom have asked to negotiate an out-of-court settlement in a case Airtel accused rival company of abusing its market dominance in provision of mobile money transfer…

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TECH NEWS

Vivo Energy and Airtel Money sign Pan African partnership Agreement.

Vivo Energy a Shell licensee in 15 African markets and Airtel Money today announced a collaborative Pan African agreement to strengthen both companies’ footprint in providing services to their growing…

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TECH NEWS

Safaricom drops bid to acquire Essar’s Yu mobile assets.

Vodafone’s telecommunications company Safaricom has withdrawn bid on Yu mobile’s sale deal following the tough conditions given to the two contestants to be fulfilled in six months. The contender has…

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