Kenyan telco giant, Safaricom, has announced the second edition of its Spark Venture Fund, which was established to support late-seed and early growth stage companies in Kenya. In this second edition, Safaricom has pumped in 5 million dollars, increasing the fund from 1 to 6 million dollars. Safaricom launched Spark ...
Kenyan telco, Safaricom, is set to continue providing monthly communication service to close to 5500 front-line healthcare workers. The service enables them to call and access the internet for free. The 5529 workers identified by the Ministry of Health will have access to 195TB of data, 10 million minutes for ...
In 2009, Safaricom launched the Skiza Tunes service where the subscriber can entertain their callers with a song before they (the subscriber) can pick up his or her phone. By 2017, subscribers had downloaded at least 132,000 tunes, and the numbers keep rising steadily. You can use a Skiza Tune ...
Following the increased spread of COVID-19 in the country, the Cabinet Secretary of Education, Prof. Magoha ruled that all schools would remain closed until next year (2021). Consequently, e-learning became one of the main channels of ensuring the continued education of students across the country. The Safaricom CEO agreed to ...
The Kenya Power and Lighting Company in Kenya has two systems of electricity service across the country. You can have either a post or pre-paid meter. The latter system requires its users to purchase electricity tokens, which they then feed into their meters to use up to their completion. ...
Safaricom is set to kick of its KES 20 ($0.20) a day smartphone loan program in a bid to increase its data revenues. The Kenyan telco giant has partnered with Google to offer 1 million affordable smartphones for sale in the program. The firm has faced slow growth in the ...
Kenyan telco giant, Safaricom, has selected Wireless Transport Solutions provider, Aviat Networks to facilitate a 5G backhaul with its WTM 4800 multi-band radio platform. This will enable Safaricom to roll out 5G networks in rural areas and other remote locations in Kenya where fiber and copper cable sites are not ...
Safaricom has this evening announced another M-Pesa service interruption that will start from 2359hrs to 0500 hrs in routine maintenance of their systems. The disruptions will affect all M-Pesa services including airtime purchase. “In this regard, our M-Pesa services shall be undergoing planned maintenance tonight Thursday 2nd of July 2020, ...
Safaricom has announced a five-hour M-Pesa services outage tomorrow June 18th as from 0000hours to 0500ahours in routine maintenance. The M-Pesa services under maintenance include all M-Pesa services including airtime purchase. “Our M-Pesa services shall be undergoing planned maintenance on the morning of Thursday 18th June 2020, between 0000 hrs ...
Safaricom CFO, Sateesh Kamath, has been appointed to the role of Chief Financial Officer Vodafone Business, effective 1st July 2020. Sateesh will be reporting to Vinod Kumar, the current Chief Executive Officer Vodafone Business. He will also become a member of the Vodafone Group Finance Leadership Team. We will announce ...
Safaricom has Partnership with Google to support Kenyans as they turn to the internet for entertainment, education and to learn new skills. The partnership will help Kenyans leverage their digital and data capability to enable Kenyans to access the wide collection of entertainment, education, sports and news content available on YouTube. ...
Safaricom has today temporarily closed some of its shops in Nairobi and Mombasa branches to allow for sanitization and fumigation purposes. The affected shops include Safaricom Shops in Nyali and Rex House both in Mombasa, as well as Thika and Lavington Mall shops. Companies across the globe have taken the ...
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 ...
