Tag: Safaricom

Treasury wants to slap a 16% VAT on the country's 42 licensed payment service providers, a list that includes M-Pesa, ...

In the past 7 years, the average amount Kenyans borrow from Fuliza has decreased by KES 404.8, which represents a ...

The number of Kenyans needing card-based international payments is growing. This is evidenced by 62.1% growth in M-Pesa Visa card ...

The audited results of Safaricom for the financial year ended March 31, 2026, show a company firing on most cylinders ...

When Safaricom upgraded its Home Fiber speeds and cut prices this week, it looked like a big win for subscribers. ...

Safaricom has overhauled its Home Fiber packages, raising speeds across three tiers and cutting prices by around 25% for new ...

At a closed-door leadership session at the Connected Africa Summit in Nairobi, something quietly changed in how African policymakers are ...

Kenyan business owners who move from one mobile money merchant account to another in an attempt to avoid taxes have ...

The 15th Annual Connected Africa Summit is set to be held from April 27 to April 30 at the Edge ...

For the first time in nPerf's barometer history for Kenya, Safaricom has taken the top spot across every major mobile ...

Safaricom has issued a public apology today for the troubled rollout of My OneApp, acknowledging that a significant number of ...

Safaricom launched My OneApp with a simple pitch: to stop making people juggle two apps. The old M-PESA app handled ...

Kenya's fixed internet market has a new undisputed leader. According to nPerf's annual barometer covering April 2025 to March 2026, ...

For a long time, Kenya’s mobile internet story was about access; now it is about how much people use it. ...

In the second quarter of Kenya's 2025/26 financial year, total domestic mobile SMS traffic fell from 14.7 billion messages to ...

Kenya closed out 2025 with its digital economy accelerating at pace, based on new data from the Communications Authority of ...

By the end of December 2025, Kenya had 51,356,425 mobile money subscriptions. That represents a 5.6% increase from the 48,630,797 ...

The telecommunications landscape in Kenya is undergoing a transformation as mobile data emerges as the dominant revenue stream for operators. ...

There has been no good news coming out of Telkom Kenya, the state-owned telecommunications provider, for a while, and the ...

Safaricom has long been Kenya's most dominant telecommunications company. Most Kenyans know it for M-PESA, for mobile data, and for ...

Millennials don't actually hate OTT (Over-the-Top) phone calls like WhatsApp, and Gen Z doesn't love them more. On X recently, ...

The story of M-Pesa is frequently told as a story of genius mobile money design. The reality is more interesting: ...

In a ruling that lands squarely in the age of mobile money and digital accounts, the High Court sitting at ...

When reports emerged in early March that Safaricom would begin masking phone numbers in M-PESA transaction notifications, the details were ...

M-PESA launched on March 6, 2007, as a basic mobile money transfer service built by Safaricom. 19 years later, Safaricom ...

As every M-Pesa user has become accustomed to, paying at a till number or through Paybill means the merchant on ...

If you've ever winced at your airtime balance after a quick call to someone on a different network, there's good ...

Progress doesn't happen on its own. Behind every thriving business in Kenya, from the mandazi vendor who now accepts M-PESA ...

Ziidi Trader is a new mini-app inside M-PESA that lets you buy and sell shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange ...

Absa Group is bringing in new blood at the executive level, hiring Sitoyo Lopokoiyit from Safaricom's M-PESA to run its ...

Twitter (or what the cool kids call "X") is not just a playground for keyboard warriors. Sometimes you get some ...

M-Shwari just overhauled how it tracks and recovers loans by implementing a system where your debt follows your National ID, ...

Safaricom has announced an interim dividend of KES 0.85 per share for the financial year ending March 31, 2026, following ...

Digital resilience used to mean having a reliable internet connection. Today, that’s no longer enough. Businesses operate across cloud platforms, ...

Safaricom is launching Shiriki Pay, a new M-PESA feature that lets you give another person direct access to spend money ...