Tag: JTL
SIM Penetration Jumps Two Points Following Overall Increase in Subscriptions
Mobile (SIM) subscriptions have undergone ups and downs this year. At the end of the fourth quarter of the previous financial year, it emerged...
How and Where to Purchase a Faiba 4G SIM Card
Faiba is one of the growing mobile operators in Kenya. Just the other day, it revamped its data and voice offerings, and it even...
Faiba 4G Refreshes Data and Voice Offerings With the Lowest Prices in Kenya
Jamii Telecommunications Limited (JTL), which is popularly known as Faiba offers broadband connections to its customers. However, back in 2017, it decided to compete...
JTL: Faiba Mobile SIM Registration Fully CA Compliant
The Communication Authority of Kenya has been calling Kenya telcos to validate their subscriber details ahead of the April 15th deadline.
As of Sunday,...
Safaricom Is Now Unmatched In Fixed Broadband Subscriptions
Data subscriptions in Kenya are very interesting, and each telco has been trying to expand its market share by as many units as possible.
During...
Safaricom Continues to Hold Top Spot in Fixed Data Subscriptions
Data about the ICT industry in Kenya for the first quarter of the 2021/2022 FY is out. The period started from July to September...
Safaricom Once Again Ousts Zuku and JTL as Leading Fixed Internet Providers
Data and broadband services are interesting services, particularly over this period when some people are working from, and some educational institutions have adopted online...
Jamii Telecoms Applies for Tier I 4G Spectrum License
A few years ago, Jamii Telecoms entered into the 4G space.
Part of that development, which received wide attention in Kenya, was that its plans...
Jamii Telecom Finally Secures 4G Licence for an Annual KES 250M Payment Deal
Sometime back, Jamii Telecom requested the Communications Authority of Kenya to pay the 4G spectrum fee of KES 2.5 billion in instalments. The proposal...
Jamii Telecoms to Pay 4G License Fee Over 10-Year Period
About two yeas ago, the Communications Authority of Kenya awarded Jamii Telecoms Limited (JTL) a 4G license. The tier 2 mobile carrier, which popularly...
Data Prices Comparison Between Network Operators in Kenya
Data Prices Comparison Between Network Operators in Keny
Buying data bundles has become part of our budget in this modern life and as Kenyans, you...
How Data Prices Compare Between Network Operators in East Africa
Using our smartphones to surf the web is one of the basic functions we do everyday. In Africa where the majority are on prepaid...
JTL Revises Up Faiba Business Plans Prices, Home Plans Remain The Same
The Finance Act of 2018 brought about sweeping changes to how some products and services were taxed and this includes Internet services.
Fiber services are...
The Grim Effects of Kenya’s Finance Act 2018 on Cost of Internet
When President Uhuru Kenya signed into law the Finance Act 2018, Kenyans did not anticipate the vast implications of the bill. On the surface,...
Samsung Smartphones to Get Faiba 4G VoLTE Support After Valentine’s
After a colourful launch with a lot of buzz, Faiba 4G has not reached the milestone everyone hoped it would. The service has been...
Lessons from Faiba4G Mobile Launch – Fundamentals of Building a Great Product
I have spent the last 5 years developing products at Sematime. Some have had instant success others were just duds. I have also spent...
Why This is Faiba’s War to Lose
While JTL's product Faiba 4G is very innovative it's going to be their crazy low-cost pricing that is going to carry the day for them.
[UPDATED] Here’s a List of Smartphones That Work On JTL’s Faiba 4G Network
As we all get excited over the coming of Faiba 4G, the excitement might soon fade off for most of us and it's not...
Faiba 4G Goes Live with Free On-Net Calls and Unlimited ‘Fisi Hour’ Data Bundles
Jamii Telecommunications Limited (JTL) has just announced the newest mobile network operator (MNO) in Kenya, Faiba 4G. The journey started earlier this year when...
Jamii Telecom to Launch its Mobile Network ‘Faiba Mobile’ in Kenya Today
The telecommunications space in Kenya has seen some interesting times, from the days of Kencell (now Airtel) followed by the numerous ownership and brand changes to...
Telkom Kenya, Airtel and Jamii Telecom Apply for Extension of 4G Licenses
Telco Safaricom has single handedly managed to spur the adoption of 4G network in the country, and was only joined a few months ago...
JTL Faiba Increases its Bandwidth Speeds While Maintaining Prices
Unlike Zuku who went ahead to slightly bump up speeds for some of its packages but at the same time increasing their prices, Jamii...
JTL Faiba Wants a Piece of the Kenya Mobile Telco Pie and They are Taking a Big Bite
Over the years, JTL (Jamii Telecommunications Limited) has become synonymous with the words fibre, partly attributed to their "Faiba" trademark, that they aptly use for...
JTL Confirms Penetration into 4G Space in Memo to Customers
In May 2017, Kenya's Communication Authority awarded JTL (Jamii Telecommunications Limited) a mobile phone service license on the 700MHz frequency. The award was controversial...
Jamii Telecommunication Limited (JTL) May Take On Mobile Money Transfers With Faiba Money
Mobile money transfer services are uniquely Kenyan, and the solution is almost synonymous to Safaricom’s M-PESA amidst other players such Airtel Money, Equity Bank’s...
Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Awards JTL 4G Frequency Spectrum on Questionable Terms
The Communication Authority of Kenya (CA), which is in charge of regulatory policing for the ICT sector in the country is under scrutiny after...
The Ripple Effect of Facebook’s Express Wi-Fi in Kenya
“I cannot comment on that but if Kenya is a good fit, we shall definitely consider offering to launch it here” - Ime Archibong, Facebook’s...
