Safaricom is set to increase its fifth-generation (5G) sites to 200 by the end of the year and commercialise the super-fast services in 2022. The leading telco, which in March launched the 5G technology with 15 sites, wants to take high-speed Internet to additional towns. Peter Ndegwa, Chief Executive at Safaricom said that the company [...]
Ethiopia has cleared the path for Safaricom-led consortium to launch its popular M-Pesa in the Ethiopian market after deciding to include the mobile phone-based financial services in the telco’s license offered in May. According to the Business Daily Africa website, the Ethiopian authorities have stated that the license – making the consortium the first new [...]
Safaricom announced the launch its Super App which comes with offline mode and a mini-app functionality. The app had a soft launch last September and Safaricom has been testing the app with over 1 million customers in Kenya. With the M-Pesa Super App, customers can use the M-Pesa service and complete transactions by sending and [...]
Safaricom has introduced new campaign that will see subscribers receive free data every day depending on their data usage profiles. The campaign is designed to enable subscribers to redeem free daily internet offers depending on their use by dialing *544# every day for the next 90 days. The campaign is intended to empower more subscribers [...]
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 [...]
