Tag: Airtel Kenya
Airtel Tosha to offer Kenyan subscribers more voice, SMS and data
Airtel Kenya has today announced the introduction of a new permanent tariff dubbed Airtel Tosha which enables customers to get much more on voice calls, SMS and data at low daily subscription rates designed to fit their unique individual needs. In a statement, Airtel Kenya MD Shivan Bhargava said, “This is yet another flexible service [...]
Nokia Life Services to be availbale for Kenya’s Safaricom and Airtel subscribers
Nokia has announced that Nokia Life, its popular mobile services for high growth markets, will launch in Kenya. Continuing on its path to connect ‘the next billion and beyond’, Nokia Life services will be available to the subscribers of Safaricom and Airtel Kenya. Nokia Life is one of the most popular life improvement information services [...]
Ericsson’s Device & App Verification service to help vendors guarantee quality of products before launch
In order to ensure that consumers are guaranteed of quality user-experience whenever they purchase a new handset or device in the increasingly competitive global market, Ericsson has introduced its Device and Application Verification service help vendors test the quality of their offerings before launch into market. Prior to this, only smartphones have been tested by [...]
Airtel Kenya increases outlets with new Xpress shop in Nairobi
Airtel Kenya has unveiled a new Airtel Xpress at the ground floor of Commerce House, Moi Avenue, in Nairobi. The unveiling of the new Airtel Xpress outlet comes with the promise of superior quality customer service and access to the company’s mobile solutions including handsets, devices, air time data settings, post-paid customer account activation, bill [...]
Airtel Kenya, Frotcom East Africa and 2NK Sacco launch road safety initiative
Airtel Kenya has announced a road safety initiative in partnership with Frotcom East Africa in a bid to encourage safe driving of public service vehiclesin order to reduce road accidents on Kenyan roads. The initiative has been launched jointly with 2NK SACCO, one of Kenya’s leading transport SACCO and will target 550 public service vehicles [...]
Airtel Kenya makes registration of new subscribers compulsory
Following the directive by the Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) on SIM card registration, Airtel Kenya has announced that it has made it mandatory that all its new SIM cards are registered before being used on the network as from January 02, 2013. The CCK had directed compliance on SIM registration by December 31, 2012, inspired [...]
Airtel to users to win upto one-year’s school fees in new promotion
Airtel Kenya’s prepaid and postpaid customers now stand a chance to win over Kshs 100,000 daily in a new promotion called “Shinda Karo” which will run for 90 days with a total of Kshs 20 million up for grabs for 2 daily winners on the first 70 days and 3 winners on the last 20 [...]
Airtel Kenya donates 200 mobile handsets, Golden numbers to Coast Police
Airtel Kenya has donated 200 phones to the Kenya Police Post in Coast province which will each be bundled with golden numbers, a special number with digits that are easy to recall from memory in times of need and emergencies. The partnership will cover all police stations, police posts and patrol bases in the Coast [...]
Bharti Airtel appoints Shivan Bhargava managing director for Kenya
Bharti Airtel, a global telecom services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, has announced the appointment of Shivan Bhargava as managing director for its Kenyan operation. Shivan was previously the firm’s Chief Operating Officer and will in his new role be responsible for leading Airtel’s growth plans in Kenya. “Kenya has always [...]
Why would Airtel Kenya reward inactive SIM holders with 16 hours of free talk time?!!!
Here’s an announcement from the country’s second largest mobile network operator in terms of subscriber numbers, Airtel Kenya, which will make those with un-used and idle Airtel SIM cards to dust them up and connect them to their devices, and asap!!! According to a media release sent out today, Airtel Kenya has launched a new [...]