Safaricom has revised its PostPay product to appeal to more people now. For those who need how to hop in, here is a detailed explanation of how you can go about it.
On the other hand, you may want to know how the plans compare to Airtel Kenya’s PostPay, which happens to be Kenya’s second-largest operator. Airtel has traditionally been liked by a lot of people, but its 4G coverage, while being cheap, is limited to select towns in the country. This effectively makes it slower, but that is not usually the full story.
Now, Airtel’s PostPay is quite interesting, and as you may have figured out, they offer more than what Safaricom has in place.
But as I keep saying, that is not the whole story because Safaricom is mostly reliably but offers less, whereas the India-owned carrier gifts users with a lot of units that you cannot use in some locations.
Here is the comparison:
| Data | Minutes | SMS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airtel KES 1000 Safaricom KES 1000 | Airtel: 7 GB Safaricom: GB | Airtel: 700 Airtel to Airtel 300 to other networks Safaricom: 400 across all networks | Airtel: 2000 Safaricom: Unlimited Subject to FUP capped at 1000SMS |
| Airtel KES 1500 | 12 GB | 1500 Airtel to Airtel 500 to other networks | 3000 |
| Airtel KES 2000 Safaricom KES 2000 | Airtel: 20 GB Safaricom: 15 GB | Airtel: 2000 Airtel to Airtel 800 to other networks Safaricom: 1000 across all networks | Airtel: 3000 Safaricom: Unlimited Subject to FUP capped at 2000SMS |
| Airtel KES 3000 Safaricom KES 3000 | Airtel: 40 GB Safaricom: 25 GB | Airtel: 6000 Airtel to Airtel 1500 to other networks Safaricom: 1500 across all networks | Airtel: 3000 Safaricom: Unlimited Subject to FUP capped at 3000SMS |
| Safaricom: KES 5000 | Unlimited* Speed to reduce to 1 MBPS after 50GB | 2500 | Unlimited capped at 5000SMS |
| Safaricom: KES 10000 | Unlimited* Speed to reduce to 1 MBPS after 100GB | Unlimited* Capped at 10000 minutes | Unlimited* (Subject to FUP capped at 10000SMS) |
