Tag: Safaricom

It is now official that chipmaker MediaTek, telecoms firm and mobile phone manufacturer Nokia, as well as STC are the ...

The past few days have been hectic for Kenyan telcos and individuals trying to beat this week's deadline(April 15th) to ...

The deadline for SIM re-registration is today (15 April). The exercise has been going on for some time, and as ...

There has been a lot of miscommunication in the past few weeks as Kenyan Telcos rush to beat the deadline ...

Communication Authority has backtracked on its push for Kenyan Telcos to register all its users. The Regulator has been calling ...

The last couple of days or weeks have been interesting in the mobile money space. See, it has become apparent ...

Data subscriptions in Kenya are very interesting, and each telco has been trying to expand its market share by as ...

As ICT regulator continues to encourage Kenyans to go re-register their SIM cards so that information can be updated in ...

A couple of days ago, we had learnt that the CBK was in the process of compelling Safaricom’s Lipa na ...

Merchants will now receive customer's first name, transaction ID and  a redacted customer's phone number.

Halal Pesa, a Shari’ah-compliant mobile financing solution, has been launched in partnership with telco Safaricom and the Gulf African Bank. ...

The talk about Safaricom mobile data being exhausted fast or costing more than the competition has been discussed widely. To ...

I have been having internet issues with my Home Fibre connection for a long time now. I have also not ...

With more than 64 percent market share in Kenya, safaricom is the obvious leader in the telco space. It has ...

Telco Safaricom is known across the world, but most of us are aware about a few of its products: carrier ...

Safaricom has many credit products, many of which are offered by the telco in partnership with other lenders. The likes ...

A couple of days ago, Safaricom announced that mySafaricom app services would be unavailable, albeit for a short period. That ...

Telco Safaricom has revealed that its active M-PESA users have surpassed the 30-million mark. To note, this is just for ...

Every Kenyan knows what M-PESA is. The mobile money product by Safaricom has grown substantially, broken many records, and has ...

A couple of days ago, Safaricom launched the Nyakua Data Dabo Dabo campaign. The promotion gifts Safaricom customers 100 percent ...

5G has been the talk of the town in the recent months since Safaricom began its trials across the country. ...

Safaricom and TV streaming platform Showmax have partnered in a deal that will see customers access Showmax content at a ...

5G is picking pace in the country and Safaricom, Kenya's leading telco is at the helm in terms of the ...

Safaricom’s M-PESA app is now the most downloaded and the most used Kenyan app ever. It has garnered 5 million ...

We have our many shares of reservations about home internet in Kenya, but nothing comes close to the offerings of ...

Safaricom M-PESA Xpress has been around for more than four years. The feature was launched by the operator to see ...

Safaricom operations in Ethiopia have since started following years of lobbying and waiting for approvals from various state agencies in ...

Safaricom’s overdraft facility Fuliza was launched back in 2019. It has grown to become of the company’s leading revenue generators, ...

Data from operator Safaricom reveals that millions of Kenyans are using its overdraft facility, Fuliza. Introduced back in 2019, the ...

The mobile termination rates (MRTs) debate has been ongoing for a couple of days now, and that’s for good reason ...

Towards the end of 2021, ICT regulator the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) announced plans to cut call termination rates, ...

The holidays have been good, and will officially end over the weekend. January, as it happens for some people, is ...

Last week, the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) announced that it had revised call termination rates downwards from KES 0.99 ...

A couple of months ago, Safaricom launched BAZE. It is a video-on-demand platform, which the carrier said had been in ...

Lipa Mdogo Mdogo was launched sometime in 2020. The program, which for some time has been run by telco Safaricom ...