Safaricom has been in operation since 1997, and has had three different CEOs in its history: Michael Joseph, Bob Collymore, and Peter Ndegwa. How have these leaders influenced the performance…

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…

As everyone writes R.I.P Bob Collymore on their status updates, we at Kachwanya.com wish to join the rest in sending our heartfelt condolences to the family, friends, and Safaricom staff…

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 CEO, Bob Collymore…

Equity and Safaricom have signed a business pact that aims to see both parties collaborate on delivering critical services using an innovative combination of technology and finance. Projects likely to…

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.

Safaricom has rolled out “Asante Data Sunday” in which customers will get back all the data they use on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th November 2018. The move by the…

SIM swap being the latest method fraudsters have devised to extort money from Kenyans, hundreds of cases were reported in the month of July and August when Kenyans took to…

Two petitioners have taken Safaricom to court over the charges it imposes on Okoa Jahazi airtime services, claiming that they are illegal. Mr. Ashford Koome and Eric Kithinji, claim that…

As Bob Collymore take a few months off due to sickness, here at Kachwanya.com we would like to wish him a quick recovery. We hope to see him back soon…

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…

Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore, has started medical leave to receive specialised treatment for a number of months. During this time, Sateesh Kamath, the current Chief Financial Officer for Safaricom who is…

Our attention has been drawn to the statement read by NASA on September 26th with regard to the conduct of the August 8th General Election. Safaricom Limited would like to…

  Safaricom has announced renewed investments in its Customer Care organization as it seeks to strengthen service delivery to customers. Following last year’s announcement of an additional 600 jobs at…

Safaricom will on Saturday 9th September 2017 conduct a planned upgrade on the M-PESA platform. This upgrade comes a decade after Safaricom launched the service and two years after the company deployed…

Huawei and Safaricom will be together to deploy a fiber to the home (FTTH) network Safaricom adopts Huawei’s end-to-end (E2E) FTTH solution in the deployment in order to expand its…

Just recently in June, Safaricom underwent a brand repositioning which saw the company come up with a ‘new’ logo and tagline. Safaricom is no longer ‘The better Option’ and has…

Safaricom, partnering with mSurvey, has launched Consumer Wallet, a mobile platform which quantifies offline consumer spending trends and behavior. The move is intended to encourage the use of real-time data…

Safaricom has announced Kenya’s first ever telecommunications lab. The first phase of the lab has already been put up at the cost of Sh. 200 million and replicates Safaricom’s entire…

Safaricom unveiled its Nairobi East Regional Office as part of its ongoing strategy to increase customer touch points. The Regional Office, situated at the Sameer Business Park will act as…

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,…

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…

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…

Mobile service provider Safaricom has launched ‘FLEX’. An innovative product that gives customers freedom to choose how they allocate airtime for calls, SMS or data services, in line with customer…

Safaricom has announced a Kshs.3.5 million sponsorship towards the 2017 Barclays Kenya Open, scheduled to take place at the Muthaiga Golf Club from Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th March. As the Official…

By end of Thursday, Safaricom stock price ended the day on an 8 month low of Ksh 16.00. This has shaved off more than Ksh 180 billion worth of capital…

3.35trillion. This is the amount of money moved via mobile money transfer in the last one year. This represents a 20% growth from the previous year to hit the 3trillion…

The Communications authority (CA) may compel Safaricom to hive off M-Pesa. This is among some of the recommendation made in a yet to be delivered report by Analysis Mason, International consultants…

  Safaricom has announced that it will be taking 63 university students under its 2017 technology internship program. This year’s intake will target at least 40 female interns and four…

  Safaricom Spark Venture Fund has announced its investment in FarmDrive, a data analytics startup that connects small-scale farmers to financial services. FarmDrive has developed an alternative credit-scoring model based…