Tag: Safaricom

Traditional fixed-line phones are nearly extinct in Kenya. Domestic fixed voice traffic collapsed 89.4% over the year, from 42.9 million ...

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

Mobile money subscriptions grew 13.2% over the year to reach 54 million by June 2026, a penetration rate of 101.3%, ...

The government’s sale of a 15% stake in Safaricom to Vodacom has been thrown back into uncertainty after the High ...

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

Safaricom has updated My OneApp for iPhone users, with version 5.2.0 now live on the App Store. The update brings ...

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

Safaricom has revised the cost of running a Pochi La Biashara account, as anyone paying into a Pochi till will ...

Safaricom shareholders just approved the biggest dividend in the company's history. At today's Annual General Meeting, they signed off on ...

X has finally turned its long-promised payments feature into a real product. On July 27, 2026, X Money went live ...

Kenyans who owe money on their Hustler Fund loans have a new way to clear their debt: Safaricom's Bonga Points. ...

Sending money from one bank to another in Kenya is about to get a lot cheaper for a lot more ...

Esther Waititu is stepping down as Safaricom's Chief Financial Services Officer, with her last day set for July 31, 2026. ...

Safaricom has landed a contract to supply fiber internet to homes built under Kenya's Affordable Housing Program, putting the telco ...

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

Safaricom's FY26 results confirm what many Kenyan traders already know from experience. Pochi La Biashara has grown from a simple ...

A Kenyan High Court sitting in Machakos has ruled that Diamond Trust Bank Kenya Limited (DTB) must bear 40% (KES ...

Safaricom shareholders will vote on fourteen special resolutions at the company's Annual General Meeting on July 31, 2026. The changes ...

The Kenya Employment and Labor Relations Court has raised the bar for companies trying to lay off staff, ruling that ...

The Capital Markets Authority has exempted Vodafone Kenya Limited from making a mandatory takeover offer for Safaricom PLC. On paper, ...

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

Safaricom has pushed out a new update to My OneApp, and the headline feature is zero-rated access. Starting with Android ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya released its sector statistics for Q3 of the 2025/2026 financial year (January to March 2026), ...

Kenya’s total active internet bandwidth grew by 16.4%, reaching over 28,130 Gbps. Between January and March 2026, SEACOM was the ...

Imagine you loaded money onto your phone, went through the M-Pesa prompt, confirmed the transaction, and got a token from ...

Kenya’s biggest mobile money platform, M-Pesa, is set to increase its transaction charges if Kenyan Members of Parliament (MPs) approve ...

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

A High Court ruling in Nairobi has put every company that collects personal data on notice, and the lesson is ...

When Safaricom waived charges on small M-PESA transactions during COVID-19, the intent was partly practical: get money moving when people ...

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 ...