Tag: Safaricom

You can now read the digital version of newspapers in a convenient and welcome manner thanks to a new partnership ...

United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres has announced the appointment of Sanda Ojiambo as the Executive Director of the United ...

It appears Safaricom has pulled the feature. Even with the update, you cannot activate the app via Wi-Fi connections.  Old ...

Back in 2013, Safaricom introduced a product that allowed its customers to share data bundles akin to Sambaza airtime. It ...

Safaricom and Visa have jointly announced a partnership that seeks to develop products that will support digital payments for MPESA ...

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics recently released its Economic Survey 2020 report that gives a look into Kenya's economy. The ICT ...

While internet companies, especially mobile carriers have done a good job in pushing internet penetration and adoption numbers, a good ...

Safaricom’s 2019/2020 FY results are here. The telco service revenue grew by +4.8% YoY to KES 251.2 billion from KES ...

A couple of weeks ago, Ethiopia announced that it has opened the floor for mobile money for telcos. The development ...

There are many ways of topping up your line with airtime, but the most popular one is through scratch cards. ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to stay home for longer and that has led to a strain on services. ...

COVID-19 pandemic is here and so is the rampant misinformation. The latest one doing rounds on Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp ...

Vodacom and Safaricom have announced they have jointly completed the acquisition of the MPESA brand, product development, and support services ...

As of April 2020, Ethiopia has allowed new players to take part in the mobile space. New entrants, in this ...

COVID-19. We all have a general idea about the virus and what it has done to the world. In a ...

The latest sector statistics numbers from the Communications Authority of Kenya are here. The Authority, which is tasked with the ...

A few days ago, the CBK directed mobile operators and financial institutions to adjust their mobile money products to cushion ...

Safaricom and KCB have today announced that they have set aside billions of shillings that will be made available for ...

Safaricom has announced that they have waived fees for MPESA transactions below Kshs 1000 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Starting ...

Safaricom has had a number of network glitches in the past. The famous one was when people realized they could ...

Safaricom has recently pushed an update to the old mySafaricom app  on Android (yes there is a new one) which ...

By now, the majority of us are aware that Safaricom refreshed its PostPay product to generally positive reception from customers. ...

M-Ledger is was developed due to MPESA's continued use in the country. It became popular because it was able to ...

Safaricom's mySafaricom app was launched almost 4 years ago and it has truly earned its place on my home screen. ...

Safaricom has revised its PostPay product to appeal to more people now. For those who need how to hop in, ...

Safaricom has lifted the curtains off its new post-pay plan that starts at KES 1000 all the way to KES ...

Data and call plans are some of the hotly contested products for any mobile carrier. Market leader Safaricom has been ...

In early November, we learned that Amazon Web Services, which is the world’s largest cloud computing service provider, was planning ...

Kenya's biggest telecom carrier, Safaricom will consider awarding a contract to Huawei as they roll out their 5G network this ...

If you noticed you had a problem making a phone call on the Safaricom network, you are probably not alone. ...

Our mobile phone carriers have a lot of prefixes that they use to uniquely identify each other. We can generally ...

A statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education Magoha that corporates which turn in profits should give back to society ...

Safaricom has sued East Africa Data Handlers in a case that the operator claims saw it lose KES 20.3 million ...

About two months ago, the Postal Corporation of Kenya (Posta) alongside mobile carrier Safaricom decided to collaborate on a product ...

Buying phones on a contract like Americans do is something we have been waiting for for so long, but I ...