Tag: Safaricom

For years, the accepted line was that M-PESA kept Safaricom’s subscribers loyal to its mobile network, but the results for ...

Safaricom made KES 50.35 billion in profit after tax in the six months to September 30, 2026, up from KES ...

Safaricom's 2026 Sustainable Business Report is hardly about sustainability, but it gives a detailed account of how the company's technology ...

A Kenyan High Court judge has ruled that Safaricom can take part in a legal dispute over how much telecom ...

Safaricom has launched Family Share, a plan that ties a Home Fibre subscription to mobile data and voice bundles the ...

Safaricom has launched Ziidi Shari’ah, a Shari’ah-compliant money market fund that allows M-PESA customers to invest while following Islamic finance ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has outlined new safeguards for deactivating and recycling inactive mobile numbers after Parliament questioned ...

Eric Muriuki has left NCBA Group, where he ran the LOOP digital banking business, to join Absa Group as Managing ...

When you pay at a Till, Safaricom sends you an M-PESA confirmation SMS. That message carries your M-PESA balance. So ...

If you have ever texted STOP to a promotional sender or switched on Do-Not-Disturb with your mobile network, you may ...

Paying through M-PESA at a busy counter usually means squinting at a Till/PayBill number on a crumpled receipt and tapping ...

Safaricom and Pesapal are expanding digital payments in Kenya, with Scan to Pay already available at more than 60,000 merchant ...

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

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 ...