Ethiopia’s finance ministry confirmed two final bids for new operating licences, with MTN Group and a consortium including Vodafone Group, Vodacom and Safaricom in the running to enter the market. The country’s overdue application process ended this week with the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance announcing final bids had been received from MTN, and a consortium [...]
Safaricom subscribers will enjoy one free call of up to 20 minutes within the next 30 days as the telco giant marks 20 years since it was launched. The CEO of Safaricom, Peter Ndegwa stated it will send its subscribers notification to inform them of their free calls. Ndegwa said, “Each customer will receive a [...]
Kenya-based telco, Safaricom, has introduced a Lipa Na M-PESA business smartphone app for more than 170,000 agents on the service. Also known as M-PESA for Business, the app allows business owners to benefit from real-time statements, export statements and track their business performance on the go. Through the app, entrepreneurs can withdraw funds from Lipa [...]
Safaricom has just announced the launch of an Android TV Box as part of a strategy to bring Home Fibre services to more homes. The TV box equips any TV with the ability to stream content from YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, ShowMax and other Android TV applications. It also allows users to wirelessly project their smartphone [...]
Ethiopia’s communications regulator announced that it has received twelve bids for the two telecom licenses it intends to grant to multinational mobile companies, breaking the state monopoly. Th regulator stated that nine bidders are telecom operators and two non-telecom operators, and one submission was incomplete. Bidders consist of Etisalat, Axian, MTN, Orange, Saudi Telecom Company, [...]
Safaricom and Visa have announced a new partnership by developing products to support digital payments for M-PESA customers. The partnership will cover more than 24 million M-PESA customers, over 173,000 Lipa Na M-PESA merchants from Safaricom and 61 million merchant locations throughout Visa’s global network. “We are delighted to partner with Visa in exploring products [...]
Vodacom and Safaricom announce that they have finalized the acquisition of the M-PESA brand, product development and support services from Vodafone through a newly-created joint venture. The transaction, which was first announced in 2019, will accelerate M-PESA’s growth in Africa by giving both Vodacom and Safaricom full control of the M-PESA brand, product development and [...]
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform, has just inked a strategic deal with Kenya’s largest mobile operator, Safaricom to provide more cloud services in Africa. Safaricom said that the agreement will let the operator resell AWS services and it should fasten Safaricom’s internal IT transformation, decrease operational plus and provide a blueprint and [...]
Kenya mobile phone company, Safaricom is paving the way for 5G. The next generation of mobile Internet that should succeed in 4G is still in its infancy. Globally, only a handful of markets; the United States, Korea and a few cities across Europe have been able to deploy real 5G networks on their territories. According [...]
Safaricom has launched a Storo Bonus Promotion that will reward customers 200% bonus airtime and an additional 200MB Free YouTube bundle on hitting the daily target. “We are always looking at ways of giving our customers more value for what they spend on our network. Customer satisfaction is a key objective for us and we [...]
