Safaricom Ethiopia has switched on its mobile telecommunications network and services in Addis Ababa, the country’s capital city. The Ethiopian government launched Digital Ethiopia 2025 to help the country realise its digital potential and leverage [c]
Kenya’s mobile network operators – Safaricom, Airtel Kenya, Telkom Kenya, Jamii Telecom, and Equitel – have deactivated a total of 287,214 SIM cards in the three months between May to June 2022. The update comes [c]
Safaricom has embarked on a large scale customer pilot of its network in Dire Dawa City, Ethiopia. The operation is part of the telco’s phased city-by-city regional network roll-out and rigorous service tests which will [c]
Telkom has launched the Changa Bundle to enable Kenyans share data, minutes, voice and SMSs. Telkom prepaid customers now have the opportunity to acquire 100 GB of data, 200 on-net minutes, 50 off-net minutes, and 200 SMSs for Kshs [c]
Safaricom has launched a Christmas campaign dubbed ‘Pokea Uteo Wa Furaha’. ‘Pokea uteo wa furaha’ is month-long campaign that kicks off on 4 December 2021 up to 15 January 2022 and seeks to deepen customer [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]
Airtel Africa a revenue growth of $2.272 billion (or 25.2%) for the first half of 2022 as well as double digit growth across all its subsidiaries in the continent. During the second quarter of the [c]
BT and Microsoft have announced a new strategic partnership to accelerate innovation across enterprise voice, cyber security and industry-focused services in sectors from digital manufacturing to health, setting businesses in the UK and around the [c]
Telkom has reviewed its welcome offer for pre-paid customers joining the network for the first time. A new Telkom pre-paid customer will need to activate their newly acquired line with as little as Kshs 20, [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]
Airtel Africa has contracted Ericsson to expand its 4G coverage in Kenya. As part of the deal, Ericsson’s Radio Access Network (RAN) and packet core products for 4G will enable Airtel subscribers to experience enhanced [c]
The East African Sub-Marine System (EASSy) has restored services in Mogadishu and surrounding areas within Somalia after a network outage experienced the previous weekend. On Sunday, 26 July 2020 at 07:38 UTC, a shunt fault occurred [c]
Cassava Fintech International (CFI), a subsidiary of Econet, has announced the release of ‘Sasai TeamTalk’, a voice and video conferencing service that takes up to 20 people on one call. The service, coming at a [c]
On average, prices for mobile-voice, mobile-data and fixed-broadband services are decreasing steadily around the world, and in some countries even dramatically. The reduction in price relative to income is even more dramatic, suggesting that, globally, [c]
Safaricom has unveiled revamped PostPay plans that will offer customers bundled voice, data and SMS with no-expiry. The new plans will be available on a 30-day basis with any unused resources rolling over to the [c]
Airtel recently announced its financial results for the 9-month period ending on December 31, 2019, reporting that its overall customer base in Africa grew by 9.4% to reach 107.1 million. The India-based telco group stated [c]
Increased access to mobile network signals and exciting product offers by operators continue to drive consumers to own more than one SIM card to take advantage of the diverse services, a report by the Communications [c]
Airtel Kenya has launched no expiry data and call rates that will allow customers to spend as low as Kshs 1 for 5MB of data and to make calls at Kshs 2 across all networks [c]
Airtel Africa has reported a revenue increase of 8.4 per cent, with the figure standing at $1.64 billion in the first half of the year and growing by 9.8 per cent in the second quarter [c]
Safaricom has marked 19 years since its launched by unveiling new data plan, and a new calling and SMS plan that will respectively offer data bundles and calling minutes with no expiry deadline. The Data [c]
Oracle has announced availability of its AI-trained voice with Oracle Digital Assistant. Now, enterprise customers can use voice commands to communicate with their enterprise applications to drive desired actions and outcomes, enriching the user experience with [c]
Airtel Kenya has increased the data offerings on its monthly UnlimiNet product by more than 400% from 500MB to 2.5GB and 50% more on voice minutes for only Kshs 500 in recognition of the ever [c]
Airtel Kenya has announced the roll out of over 800 3G and 4G sites across the country in a bid to enhance its network coverage thus improving customer experiences. The sites roll out and upgrade [c]
Telkom has reviewed its flagship Combo bundle dubbed “Mzito” giving subscribers data, minutes and free night data as below: Plan Night Data Price 7 GB and 300 all-net minutes Valid for 30 days Kshs 999 [c]
Since the launch of Search 20 years ago, Google has built in several useful features and tools to help make everyday life easier. Whether you are looking for information related to your career, education or [c]
Telkom is offering free data to its prepaid subscribers who sign up for the Kshs 999 bundle that grants them 7GB of data and 300 minutes of talktime to any network. Subscribers will also enjoy [c]
Safaricom has announced new Home Fibre packages that will combine mobile voice, mobile data, SMS and Home Fibre in one package. Known as Home Fibre Plus, the new packages come at a time consumer preferences [c]
Almost a week after Safaricom increased its voice, SMS, data charges as a response to the various taxes introduced by the government, Airtel Kenya has now followed suit. But unlike Safaricom which increased the costs [c]
Safaricom has this afternoon announced via statement that it will increase its voice, SMS and data tariffs from midnight tonight in response to various taxes introduced by the government recently. In the statement, Safaricom, which [c]
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has launched a new system to measure quality of services provided to consumers on mobile telephony networks. The new Quality of Service Monitoring system (QSMS) is be based on [c]
All the three telcos in the country – Safaricom, Airtel Kenya and Telkom Kenya – all have developed and introduced to the market various bundled offering for SMS, voice and data services. And their subscribers [c]
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