Less than a year after joining Safaricom from Telkom Kenya as the Chief Enterprise Business Officer, Kris Senanu is set to leave the telco at the end of this month, with his last day being [c]
Once in a while, we may become frustrated (and even disgusted) by our telcom service networks (or MNOs) or one reason or another. These may range from dropped calls, undelivered text messages or just poor [c]
Telkom has introduced the T-kash app, an easy-to-use application that will enable its customers to access a wider service offering on its digital financial services platform. The T-kash app, which can be downloaded from the [c]
Telkom has revamped its voice offers for its mobile prepaid customers. The revised voice bundle, Sema Yote, earlier known as Chapa Story, will give customers 100 free minutes of talk time per day at a [c]
Telkom Kenya customers to get to enjoy a life-time value of 1GB of Mobile Internet Data and 100 minutes of talk time to make Telkom-to-Telkom calls, for free, every month. This life-time offer called Madaraka [c]
Telkom’s financial services platform T-kash has been integrated into the government digital services platform, eCitizen. This integration with the eCitizen Portal will enable T-kash customers to pay for National and County Government Services that are [c]
Towards the end of April, we reported that Telkom Kenya had introduced a 60GB data bundle for Kshs 1,000 but which could only be purchased (or subscribed to) on Friday before midnight (or Saturday morning). [c]
Standard Chartered Bank has announced a partnership with Telkom Kenya dubbed Omoka Vinoma that will see Telkom pre-paid subscribers get access to 100 per cent cashback on Standard Chartered current account transactions. The partnership will present a competitive proposition [c]
Airtel has come out to refute claims that it is set to exit the Kenyan market as reported on various online platforms. In a statement, the telco’s CEO Prasanta Das maintained that the company remains [c]
Telkom Kenya already has some of the most reasonably priced (let’s just be honest and call them ‘cheapest’ for that’s what they’re) data bundles in the market, even though the network’s internet speeds can at [c]
Telkom Kenya has announced the departure of two of its division MDs – that is Kris Senanu and Steve Okeyo. Kris Senanu was Telkom Kenya’s MD for Digital Service Delivery Unit while Steve Okeyo was [c]
All person-to-person transactions below Kshs 100 in Telkom’s T-Kash platform will remain zero-rated. These reviewed tariffs have been approved by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). Comparative to Telkom’s pre-pandemic tariffs, the T-kash tariffs within [c]
Telkom Kenya has partnered with phone vendors to offer mobile phones at accessible price points as the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for the rural and urban youth customer. As an add on, the mobile phones [c]
Telkom Kenya has made three senior appointments to its management team. Claire Munene and Saddiq Mwai join as the new Director of Customer Experience, and the Director of Digital Financial Services, respectively, within the Telkom [c]
Telkom Kenya has reviewed its ShowMax Pro mobile data deals following heightened demand witnessed during the Black Friday offer of the same. Christmas therefore will be coming early for Telkom subscribers, as the 30GB and [c]
Telkom has revamped its daily, monthly and unlimited homeplan data bundles. The revamp will give more value to pre-paid heavy data customers by improving their user experience as well as the amount of data they will [c]
Telkom has revamped its mobile Voice bundles. The Pawa voice bundles come with added value packs for SMS and mobile internet data. The Voice bundle revamp builds onto Telkom’s strong, consumer-centric ethos, with the telco [c]
Showmax Pro has partnered with Telkom to launch data deals for Telkom mobile subscribers. The 30GB and 45GB data bundles from Telkom include a one-month subscription to stream Showmax Pro on mobile devices. Showmax Pro [c]
As part of its new strategic focus, Telkom Kenya has announced it plans to create a future smart landing hub for the majority of sub-marine cables in the region as the telco continues to provide [c]
Merger talks between Telkom and Airtel Kenya have collapsed and all the parties have agreed to continue operating as individual entities. In February 2019, the two telcos announced plans of the intended merger of Telkom [c]
Telkom and Loon have announce the availability of mobile internet service via the Loon technology to Kenyans, starting July 2020. This important milestone comes as the project partners approach the completion of the network integration [c]
Telkom customers will now have convenient and subsidised access to medical consultations through its partnership with Valentis Health, a doctor-founded healthcare service providing telemedicine. The medical consultancy service, Dial Daktari, will give Telkom customers access [c]
Telkom will power Afya Rekod’s health management platform that will facilitate COVID-19 monitoring and analysis. The Afya Rekod platform was developed, in light of the coronavirus pandemic, to support global efforts to curb the disease. [c]
Patients in quarantine at the Kenyatta National Hospital’s (KNH) Infectious Diseases Unit at Mbagathi, Nairobi, will now find it easier to keep in touch with their loved ones and the outside world, after Telkom donated [c]
A larger fleet of Loon balloons is heading to Kenya after successful launches from Loon’s launch site in Puerto Rico, this week. These balloons will join the eight balloons that are already active and part [c]
Telkom has recorded a 50 per cent spike in data consumption on its network, following weeks of significant increase in usage of its Home products and other tailored data solutions. This comes at a time [c]
Telkom Kenya has launched a customised and reliable mobile data solution for the students, members of faculty and staff of the University of Nairobi (UoN), to enable continuity of learning, in light of the COVID-19 [c]
Telkom Kenya has landed the Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1) submarine cable in Mombasa. The DARE 1 cable will now offer a strategic alternative in the routing of traffic as well as the [c]
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has directed Telkom Kenya to quickly address a commercial dispute with Eaton Towers Kenya that saw the latter switch off Telkom Kenya’s transmitters, resulting in service outage for the [c]
Among the country’s four mobile network operators, only Airtel Kenya recorded an increase in voice traffic between April and June this year while the other three mobile networks – Safaricom, Telkom Kenya and Equitel – [c]
Airtel Africa has announced the appointment of Ian Ferrao as Regional Director of its East Africa business. Ian Ferrao has more than 12 years of experience in senior management telecoms roles in Africa. Prior to joining [c]
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