Safaricom's Sanda Ojiambo has been appointed as the Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) the worlds largest corporate sustainability initiative. Sanda who will assume the role from June 17th taking over from Denmark’s Lise Kingo who has been with the UN Global Compact since 2015. Before her ...
Safaricom has today introduced a new feature that alerts you via SMS when someone registers a line using your ID through an SMS number 707. Through their Twitter official page, Safaricom announced that they will be enabling the feature on our mobile phones. Safaricom is working on curbing fraud cases ...
Safaricom has reported M-Pesa outages for customers who access M-Pesa through My Safaricom App, KCB M-Pesa, and Mshwari. Customers have since been advised to be patient as they work on a solution to restore the service. "Please note that M-Pesa services on MYSafaricom App, Mshwari, and KCB M-Pesa are currently ...
Safaricom has appointed Sitoyo Lopokoiyit to head the newly created joint venture with South Africa’s Vodacom Group that will run the lucrative M-Pesa platform. Before his appointment, Sitoyo has been the Chief Officer for Financial Services in the company. His appointment is part of the process to establish the joint ...
Safaricom's home internet data consumption has grown by 70 per cent, while mobile data usage has recorded a 35 per cent increase. Nearly a month after Kenya reported the first Coronavirus case. The surge in internet usage follows the government's directive to work from home to flatting the COVID-19 spread ...
Safaricom has today rolled out Bonga For Good. An initiative that will see customers use Bonga Points to pay for essential goods and services. Customers will redeem 1 Bonga Point for KES 30 cents. Which is a 50% increase from the previous KES 20 cents per point, at over 140,000 ...
Safaricom PLC has partnered with education content providers to give primary and high school students free access to educational content. Two weeks ago, the president ordered the closure of all schools to curb the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic days after the first patient was diagnosed with the virus. Since ...
Peter Ndegwa reports today as the new Safaricom CEO. Ndegwa was appointed in the position in October 2019 following the demise of the companies CEO Bob Collymore in July 2019. He takes over the position from the interim CEO Michael Joseph. Mr Ndegwa will also become Safaricom's first Kenyan CEO. ...
Safaricom has today announced an agreement with Amazon which will allow the telco to resell Amazon Web Services in Kenya. The Telco also becomes East Africa’s first Advance Consulting Partner member in Amazon Web Services Partner Network. The agreement will accelerate Safaricom’s internal IT transformation, lower costs and provide it ...
Kipchoge To Also Extend His Partnership With Safaricom As He Becomes M-PESA Brand Ambassador Safaricom has today announced a raft of measures to support Eliud Kipchoge in his challenge to become the first-ever athlete to run a full marathon in under 2 hours. This includes a partnership with Kipchoge that ...
Aren't we all tired of the ‘credit-eating’ trap that we get into, whenever we innocently click on a link or an Ad that asks for our phone numbers? But then again, maybe you are just tired of the constant promotional texts that never seem to stop. I know that I ...
Accelerated rollout to see the company cover all major towns in the country and 80% of the population with high-speed connectivity Safaricom has today announced plans to double its 4G network coverage to 5000 base stations by March 2020, covering all major towns and 80% of the Kenya population. The ...
The partnership will see both organizations work towards creating more opportunities to empower Kenyans using a mix of technology and financial solutions. Equity Group Holdings PLC and Safaricom PLC have today announced plans to create a joint transformation agenda that aims to enable more Kenyans to access critical services using ...
All Safaricom Customers to Enjoy Customized Tunukiwa Double Airtime Offers Safaricom customers are set to enjoy double talk-time to all networks over the next three months. The offer will be available to all 30 million customers through the Tunukiwa Service by dialing *444*0# after which they can purchase an offer to ...
Safaricom has launched a customer promotion campaign, dubbed “Shukrani Kocho Kocho Kenya Nzima” to drive sales and revenues as it will make its customers spend more in anticipation of winning, akin to gambling. The Shukrani KochoKocho Kenya Nzima promotion is a new strategy by Safaricom to build a long-term and ...
Safaricom has announced the appointment of Ms. Rose Ogega to its Board. At the Board of Directors’ meeting held on 12th February 2019, the board approved the appointment of Ms. Ogega as an independent non-executive director effective 12th February 2019. “Ms. Ogega brings wealth of experience spanning over 25 years advising and ...
In view of the recent increase in excise duty, other taxes and rising input costs, Airtel Kenya has announced it has been constrained to increase its headline voice and data tariffs by 30 cents each and its SMS tariff by 10 cents effective from midnight tonight. "Despite this increase, our ...
As a local web and mobile app developer, Joshua Mutua, the founder and CEO of KejaHunt and KejaMove, businesses in real estate and relocations respectively; struggled to buy domain names online on sites such as Godaddy, Namecheap and domains.com because he had no credit card. His bank also limited his ...
WeChat is fueling a giant ecosystem in China. It has 902 million users daily, 806 million monthly users for WeChat Pay in 25 countries. The giant social chat and payments platform also sees 205 million connected calls every day and 68 million videos are posted every day. Even more, WeChat ...
GSMA and mobile money providers across Africa and the world have launched the GSMA Mobile Money Certification, in a bid to offer transparent and more resilient financial services to millions of mobile money users around the world. According to the GSMA, the certification is designed to enhance consumer trust and ...
Ms. Sylvia Mulinge has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Vodacom Tanzania PLC. She joins the Company from Safaricom in Kenya where she currently serves as the Director for Consumer Business having joined the company in 2006. Mulinge will succeed Ian Ferrao before August 31, 2018. Ms. Mulinge ...
Led by Yannis Pitsiladis, a Professor of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Brighton and a member of the International Olympic Committee’s Medical and Scientific Commission, SUB2 aims to demonstrate how science and technology can fairly help athletes improve their performance. SUB2 is an Internet of Things (IoT) technology ...
iflix has partnered with Safaricom to give its customers up to 60 days of unlimited access to thousands of TV shows, movies and more on every device they own in a move to push up its user numbers. However, the problem is that not many Safaricom customers use their mobile ...
Safaricom and Radio Africa Group have unveiled a music streaming service offering a wide variety of music to consumers, as well as an additional platform for artistes to sell their music. Dubbed “SONGA by Safaricom”, the Radio Africa Group-owned streaming service will compete with 88mph's Mdundo, Boomplay Music and the ...
Safaricom has extended its 4G network to all the 47 counties in Kenya in a competitive bid that will see clueless Jamii Telecom's Faiba Mobile struggle to catch up. Safaricom also announced that by the month of November 2017 its active 4G subscribers had reached 1 million across the country. ...
Kenya's M-Shwari, a mobile lending and saving solution owned by Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) and running on Safaricom will now be available to smartphone users through MySafaricom App. The firm, which today celebrated its 5th anniversary with over 21 million customers in Kenya also introduced smart pricing for loans according to ...
Jamii Telecommunications has this evening Tuesday 5th December launched its Faiba 4G mobile network in Nairobi, a move expected to fuel a data price war with competition Safaricom, Telkom Kenya, Airtel and Equitel. Faiba 4G, which is expected to kill the firm's own home fibre internet Faiba Home will be ...
Safaricom has today launched M-PESA services for visually impaired customers to allow them to access mobile money services through voice commands. By dialing 234, then selecting the “M-PESA Services” option, followed by the “M-PESA Balance” option, the customers will be able to enter their PIN and then their M-PESA balances ...
Safaricom is remodeling some of its shops to cater for emerging services such as connected businesses, smart homes, and e-commerce, a move expected to bolster the reach of its Masoko e-tail store. The remodeled shops will work as pick up points if for the Masoko if consumers choose. At the ...
Safaricom's Masoko struggled for several hours before and after launch of its first ever Masoko Black Friday Campaign which started at 0:00 hours on Friday, November 24. Potential buyers who visited the site found it offline and several others couldn't proceed to buy or check out anything from the site. ...
