Airtel Kenya, Nokia Establishing 5G Network
Airtel has been working on modernizing Kenya and will be doing so with Nokia with whom they signed a deal with the firm recently. The new contract will run for three years
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Tag: Telcos
Telcos ordered by GoK to suspend 27 betting firms’ pay bill numbers
Safaricom, Airtel, and Telkom Kenya have been directed by the Kenyan Government to withdraw pay bill numbers and SMS codes of 27 betting companies among them SportPesa, Betin, and 1XBet. This directive comes just after six months of push-and-pull between the government and betting firms. On Wednesday, the government struck ...
Safaricom Introduces I.T Security Solutions For Enterprise Customers
New solution to offer cybersecurity and consulting services Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) enterprise customers can now access a wide range of security solutions to protect their information technology (I.T) systems. The services include Managed Security Solutions, Security Assurance and Advisory services as well as Managed Security Operations Center solutions. With the ...
Airtel denies plans to exit Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania
Airtel Africa says its not looking at exiting Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania according to media reports made early Monday. The firm has this morning said the reports are completely incorrect, unfounded and devoid of any facts. "Airtel has consistently stated that it is open to consolidation opportunities, either through acquisitions or ...
Airtel to exit Kenya, Rwanda & Tanzania-Report
Bharti Airtel is set to exit the Kenyan, Rwandan and Tanzanian markets in a move to cut down its expenditures and move to profitability, according to analysts speaking to local media in India, where the firm is based. According to the reports, Chairman Sunil Mittal said the firm may exit ...
Kenya’s Faiba 4G mobile network has cheapest data prices in Africa, to offer free on-net calls for life
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 ...
Telkom Kenya still investigating malicious user who shared adult content via its Twitter handles
Telkom Kenya has said it's still investigating the source of the inappropriate content shared on its Twitter account two days ago. The firm announced through Twitter that it had removed the content but was tracking down the source, and two days later it's yet to let its users know what ...
Safaricom’s net profits hit Ksh 26.2 billion, firm plans to launch an innovation lab
Safaricom's net profits for the first six months ended September 30th grew by 9.5 percent to hit Ksh 26.2 billion up from Ksh 23.93 billion the same period last year. The telco also saw 10.8% increase in the customer base to 29.5m. Voice service revenue grew by 3.6% to Kshs 47.35bn ...
Safaricom CEO Named Africa Investor CEO of the Year
Safaricom CEO Bob Collymorehas been named CEO of the Year by Africa investor (Ai), a leading international investment and communications group. Mr. Collymore was yesterday awarded with the title of Ai SRI 30 CEO of the Year in the awards at the just concluded 11th Africa investor (Ai) Institutional Investment ...
Safaricom’s youth-focused sub-brand Blaze reaches 1.6m users
Safaricom's youth-focused sub-brand Blaze has hit 1.6m users exactly nine months after the telco announced it had hit 900,000 subscribers. Speaking at the firm's AGM, Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore said, "We know that young people who make up half the country’s population are very important to our future.That is why ...
Safaricom to deploy intelligent solutions to bolster its customer care services
Safaricom has said it will introduce intelligent solutions to its Customer Care organization in a move to strengthen service delivery to its customers. “We are in the process of deploying intelligent solutions that will enable us to better understand our customer needs across all divisions of the company. The planned ...
Liquid Telecom raises $700 million to expand its network capabilities & service offering across Africa
Liquid Telecom has successfully raised $700 million to refinance the group’s existing debt and to support its growth strategy as it continues to rapidly scale and expand its network capabilities and service offering across Africa. The group raised $550 million in the international debt capital markets in its debut bond, ...
Liquid Telecom partners with Kwale County to launch free street Wi-Fi & KwalePay for online services
Liquid Telecom and Kwale County have partnered to launch free street Wi-Fi in Baraza Park and Ukunda and an online services portal, KwalePay, a one-stop online gateway to all the county government’s services, meaning residents can get business licences, pay land rent and access council services from their mobile phones, ...
US-based mobile game publisher GameMine partners with South Africa’s Vodacom Group for game distribution
GameMine, a US-based mobile game publisher has partnered with South African's Vodacom Group to provide a selection of its ad-free mobile games free of charge to Vodacom subscribers. During the promotional trial period, millions of Vodacom subscribers will enjoy GameMine's more than 175 titles spanning all major mobile gaming genres. ...
Telkom Kenya expands 4G presence to 19 more towns across the country
Telkom, formerly Orange Kenya is expanding its 4G network to 19 more towns giving Kenyans an alternative to experience faster Internet speeds. Telkom subscribers with 4G enabled devices will now enjoy the 4G service in major Kenyan cities and towns following its network upgrade and commissioning of 4G sites across ...
Safaricom ditches its mobile telco look as it starts journey as an enabler platform for all things digital
On the surface, there might be nothing much from the new Safaricom logo but deep in its realms the telco is inching closer to its dream of becoming a raft or an enabling platform for just about everything away from its old mobile telecommunication roots. As we all know, a ...
Safaricom increases Skiza earnings by 36% | Plans to revamp it into music streaming platform
Safaricom says it has increased the amount Kenyan artists will earn for music sold through the SKIZA music platform by 36% increase in a move aimed at signing up more customers on the platform loved by over 11m users as it pushes to overhaul it into a full-fledged music streaming ...
Time to cash out as Safaricom mulls launch of M-Pesa in Nigeria, Angola
Safaricom is set to expand M-Pesa, its 1o year-old mobile money service to new markets after its parent firm Vodafone PLC sold a 35 percent stake to its South African subsidiary for $2.6 billion in what will turn out to be a new test of loyalty to the firm's retail ...
Tigo and Ericsson launch Business Support System (BSS) ‘as a service’ in Rwanda
Tigo Rwanda has partnered with Ericssonto completely overhaul its Business Support Systems (BSS) ecosystem becoming the first operator across the Millicom group that has transformed its BSS operations and gone live with Ericsson’s ‘as a Service’ model for its complete BSS needs. The solution covers the full spectrum of ...
Telkom gets into home data market with a home plan on 4G & free daily WhatsApp
Telkom has entered the home broadband segment with the introduction of a home data offer dubbed the ‘Home Plan’ for its home users with 4G after rebranding and leaving the Orange Telecom ghosts behind. The firm says its Home Plan on 4G will be available in all major cities and ...
Liquid Telecom launches pan-African Wi-Fi roaming hub to accelerate Wi-Fi roaming across Africa
Liquid Telecom has launched a new Wi-Fi roaming hub that enables operators and ISPs to access its network of public Wi-Fi hotspots across Africa for the first time in a move expected to allow Liquid Telecom's wholesale customers to access its public Wi-Fi hotspots, enable their subscribers to connect to ...
Orange finalizes the acquisition of Cellcom Liberia rebrands it to Orange Liberia
Orange has finalised the acquisition of Cellcom Liberia and rebranded it to Orange Liberia, allowing the Group to reinforce its presence in West Africa. The acquisition of Cellcom was finalized by Orange, through its subsidiary Orange Côte d’Ivoire, on 6 April 2016. According to Bruno Mettling, Deputy Chief Executive Officer ...
Ex-Airtel Kenya MD Adil Youssefi appointed new CEO of Liquid Telecom Kenya
Mr Adil Youssefi, who is the immediate former MD Airtel Kenya has been appointed as the new CEO of Liquid Telecom Kenya after three years at the helm of Kenya's second largest telco. He succeeds Mr Ben Roberts, who will become board Chairman of Liquid Telecom Kenya and concentrate on ...
Orange Group launches Orange Bank to kill mobile money & simplify digital payments
Orange Group, with operations in Europe and Africa has today launched Orange Bank, its 100% mobile banking offer promising cutting-edge, digital and banking innovations including contactless mobile payments, sending money by SMS, instant bank balances, temporary freezing of the debit card and 24/7 access to a bank advisory service. Set ...
Liquid Telecom strengthens Neotel team with two new appointments
Liquid Telecom has appointed Raj Jandu as Neotel CFO and Michael Allschwang as Neotel's Chief Sales and Marketing Officer after Liquid Telecom Group completed Neotel's acquisition in February this year. Raj was Liquid Telecom CFO for the east Africa region since 2013, overseeing the financial management and growth of the ...
Telkom Kenya to launch 4G and advanced mobile financial services to take on M-Pesa, M-Shwari
Telkom Kenya is set to launch 4G services across the country and unveil mobile financial services better than what Kenyans have used before as the firm tries to revive itself from the dead after the French-based Orange Group pulled out of the market. Speaking at the Connected Kenya Summit 2017, ...
Liquid Telecom Kenya combats vandalism of fibre optic cables with new awareness campaign
Liquid Telecom Kenya has launched a series of countrywide awareness campaigns to protect rural fibre optic cable networks from vandalism that is costing the country hundreds of millions of shillings a year. Fibre optic cables support most of the world's Internet, cable television and telephone systems. However, they are ...
Safaricom slashes M-Pesa to bank & merchant transaction fees in renewed fight against Pesalink
Safaricom said it will next week implement a 50% tariff reduction for all Lipa Na M-PESA Buy Goods merchant fees, a move that will see the firm charge merchants a maximum of 0.5% of the transaction amount, down from the previous maximum of 1%. The telco added that Lipa na ...
Airtel launches ‘Tubonge’ to counter confusing Flex Bundles from Safaricom
Airtel has launched 'Tubonge', a daily, weekly and monthly subscription offer for its prepay voice customers days after competitor Safaricom launched a complicated bundle offer dubbed Flex which simply requires subscribers to spend more cash on data, SMS and voice for a negligible reward. The daily Tubonge offer goes for ...
How Kenyan social network Sembuse died before you even signed up
Long in the days of GPRS (2G and 3G) feature phones, ambitious Mbugua Njihia launched Sembuse.com, a Java-based messaging and content platform long before Twitter became mainstream app and before Facebook lost its cool and became overpopulated. Mr. Njihia wanted something to do different after realizing he wasn't a fit ...