The success of sport betting in Kenya has been discussed at length including the recent introduction of the new taxes. But I think the part which is little talked about is how the use of technology has changed ..
As someone who has been using PayPal for almost ten years now, the announcement this morning that Safaricom has made a deal with Paypal and TransferTo to enable movement of funds between M-PESA and PayPal ..
Sitoyo Lopokoiyit will be coming back to Safaricom as Director Financial Services effective 1st of March 2018. For the last two and half years, Sitoyo has been on assignment to Vodacom Tanzania PLC as the M-Commerce ..
Giant search company, Google has integrated M-Pesa as a form of payment into the Google play store making it easier for Kenyans to buy apps and tokens on the platform.The MPESA payment option has been ..
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 ..
Safaricom has rolled out jitambulishe a service that will now allow customers to use their voices for authentication before accessing assisted services such as resetting M-PESA PIN, and PUK requests, significantly ..
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 ..
Huawei has released its Envision 4K Video Solution in Africa aimed to assist telecoms carriers in developing and optimizing video as a fundamental service with an improved user experience. Envision video ..
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 ..
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 ..
Following trials over the last four months in Nakuru, Safaricom has today announced the availability of M-PESA 1Tap in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret and Nyeri. M-PESA 1Tap will be available to all Lipa ..
OPPO Kenya in partnership with Safaricom has today launched a new mid-tier 4G device as it seeks to increase its footprint in the Kenyan market. The new OPPO A71 smartphone offers premium design alongside ..
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 clarify our role in the last ..
Over the campaign season, businesses have suffered not only from political tension but also fake news that was laughable at first, as it was seen as just propaganda. The National Cohesion and Integration ..
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 ..
Safaricom has invested $1 million in its sixth and final investment in agri-tech startup iProcure. Started in 2014, the $1 million Safaricom Spark Venture Fund seeks to make late-seed to early-growth stage ..
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 capability to new home ..
The year 2017 will probably be more associated with the forth-coming general elections in Kenya and whatever will happen thereafter but this is also the year M-PESA turned ten. M-pesa was launched ..
Orange has recently bid the Kenyan market goodbye after a stake acquisition of 60% by Helios Investment Partners. That marked Telkom’s comeback, a move that is projected to come in handy with the company’s ..
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 adopted a new one, ..
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 ..
Safaricom has announced the second season of BLAZE Be Your Own Boss (BYOB) scheduled to kick off with the first regional summit scheduled for this weekend in Meru County. Following a successful first season ..
Passengers who consider using the recently- launched Standard Gauge Railway will now enjoy the convenience of paying for train tickets via Mpesa, thus creating a solution to the issue of middlemen who were ..
Safaricom has launched it’s fifth regional headquarters in Nyeri town. This comes as the firm continues to decentralize its operations across the country, with the aim of reaching and engaging its customers ..
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 networking including ..
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 a hub for the wider ..
Last week while in the office the guys from Kenya National Bureau of Statistics showed up from nowhere, they wanted to know how we are doing and the progress we have made in the last two years. I later ..
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 ..
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 ..