Tag: Airtel

Airtel Money has set the price for its London stock market debut. Airtel Mobile Commerce N.V., the company behind the ...

M-Pesa and Airtel Money could soon have a clearer legal framework for earning returns from the money backing customer wallets ...

Active mobile subscriptions hit 88 million by the end of June 2026, up 4.6% from the previous quarter. That works ...

Airtel Africa is winding up Airtel Kenya Telesonic Limited, its wholesale fiber and internet subsidiary in Kenya, just two years ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has rolled out a new framework governing how telecommunications numbering, naming, addressing, and identification ...

SIM swap fraud in Kenya now involves international fraudsters who are operating locally. This comes after the Directorate of Criminal ...

Kenya’s ICT regulator has published draft regulations that will have unused mobile phone numbers flagged for deactivation after 3 months. ...

Airtel Kenya has asked the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) for two licenses that would give it much more control ...

Airtel has quietly reduced the data allocations across all four Smarta prepaid bundles while keeping their prices unchanged. PlanOld dataNew ...

Airtel Africa and Starlink have launched commercial satellite-to-mobile service in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the first such deployment anywhere ...

Airtel Money has entered the micro-merchant payments market with Bizna Wallet, a digital business wallet designed for kiosk owners, mobile ...

Visa has hired Anne Kinuthia-Otieno as its new Vice President and Head of East Africa, just days after she stepped ...

Anne Kinuthia-Otieno has left her job as managing director of Airtel Money Kenya, ending a run of nearly five years ...

An attempt by Airtel Kenya to get regulators to stop Safaricom's low call prices has failed. The Competition Authority of ...

Kenya’s second-biggest telco, Airtel Kenya, has a new man at the helm. Senegalese Djibril Tobe has been appointed as the ...

As an Airtel user, you do not need to look for a physical airtime scratch card to top up. You ...

Safaricom has updated My OneApp to stay logged in even when users switch to Airtel Kenya or other non-Safaricom networks. ...

Airtel Africa will not be listing its mobile money business in the first half of 2026 as planned. Airtel Money, ...

Airtel Kenya has entered the home fiber internet market, rolling out what it calls Xstream Fiber service with four pricing ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Airtel Africa and SpaceX have completed technical trials of the Starlink Direct-to-Cell service in Kenya, targeting regions where terrestrial mobile ...

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

Airtel Kenya is making a serious play to stop being Kenya's distant number two by investing in physical infrastructure that ...

MTN Uganda, Airtel Uganda, and the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) have been sued over the disruption of communication services during ...

Residents in Busia District, Uganda, are walking across the border into Kenya just to access their own cash after the ...

Buying airtime for someone on a different mobile network in Kenya has always been unnecessarily expensive. If you're on Safaricom ...

There is a good reason Kenya is recognized as the Silicon Savannah of Africa. It’s a befitting nickname for a ...

Airtel Africa has announced a partnership with SpaceX to deploy Starlink Direct-to-Cell satellite connectivity across its 14 African markets, reaching ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya just released its 2024/25 customer satisfaction report, and the numbers tell a story that millions ...

Bharti Airtel has renewed its partnership with Google to roll out Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging on its network in ...

Airtel Money and Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) have rolled out a new mobile money integration that allows customers to make ...