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…

Amid the increase of tariffs by telcos, Telkom has launched the lowest voice bundles in the market and now customers will make voice calls for as low as Ksh 1:50…

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…

Safaricom has been recognized as the mobile operator that has continued to develop, improve and innovate its mobile services while growing its penetration rate and improving customer experience. The telecommunications…

Everybody uses MPESA in Kenya, but that doesn’t mean that the service is welcomed in every other country. Currently, MPESA boasts of being present in 10 other countries outside of…

Safaricom has partnered with flytxt a consumer analytics solution provider for enterprises in a bid to improve engagement with customers throughout their lifecycles. “We continuously work to better understand our…

After 24 months of installing M-Pesa servers locally, the telco has finally brought the mobile money services home after a weekend of indefinite shut down. The company has promised uninterrupted…

Mobile money platform, M-Pesa has made headlines over the last two weeks with claims that the product is for the first time facing intense competition in the Kenyan market. First,…

South Africa’s leading mobile operator, Vodacom has signed a deal with privately owned operator, Neotel in a 100% acquisition for R7 billion ($676.8M). The telco will finance the acquisition by…

South Africa’s Vodacom and MTN plan on buying-out subscribers signed with Nashua mobile in a R2.2bn deal this is in a bid to provide the telecoms subscribers sustainable mobile package…

Right step, right direction. South Africa today got its first LTE network switched on through Vodacom. Vodacom announced that its LTE (4G) service had been officially switched on and was…