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[Tom Jackson] The growing standoff between Safaricom, Kenya's biggest mobile operator, and the country's Ministry of ICT, led by minister Fred Matiangi, threatens to harm consumers and damage Kenya's economy unless it is solved in an amicable manner. |
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[Carole Kimutai] Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom has announced the completion of the switch off exercise for mobile handset owners with fake phones. A statement from the company says it had completed blocking of all counterfeit mobile phone handsets on its network. |
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[Carole Kimutai] Kenyans are counting days before the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) switches off counterfeit phones at the end of September. According to the CCK, close to three million mobile phones in the Kenyan market are counterfeit - 10% of all the active mobile devices in the country. |
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[Carole Kimutai] The fight for the mobile phone market in Kenya is now about Apps. In a strategic move geared at boosting local technology entrepreneurship prospects, Samsung has confirmed plans to provide support to local developers deploying their applications on the popular Android platform. |
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[Carole Kimutai] As election campaigns gain momentum in Kenya, fraudsters have come up with an ingenious way of deceiving unsuspecting mobile phone users. |
|  [Carole Kimutai] On Monday 5 September, managing director of mobile operator, Airtel Kenya, Rene Meza announced his resignation. In Kenya's highly competitive telecom sector that has only four players, Meza's exit was big news.
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[Carole Kimutai] MobiKash Afrika Limited, a private company incorporated in Kenya, has unveiled an innovative independent mobile commerce ecosystem. The platform will work across all Kenya's four GSM networks (Safaricom, Airtel, Orange, and Yu) and across participating banks. |
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[Carole Kimutai] Barely two weeks after the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) launched the mobile number portability (MNP) service, one of the mobile players is crying foul. Airtel Kenya MD Rene Meza has raised a red flag saying several anti-competition tactics were being used to block customers seeking to move to its network. |
| [Carole Kimutai] yu, the mobile phone brand of Essar Telecom Kenya has added Facebook to its Peperusha platform making the social networking site available to subscribers without the need for an internet connection. |
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[Carole Kimutai] Kenya's software developers active in developing mobile money applications are going to have a chance to showcase their products at this year's AITEC Banking and Mobile Money Conference in the Young Innovators Mobile Applications Hub, sponsored by Google. The event will be held 2-3 March 2011. The Hub is being organised by AITEC in partnership with iHub and the Kenya ICT Board. |
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[Carole Kimutai] South African Tourism (SAT) has turned its marketing sights on the Kenyan market with the launch of a mobile site. Visitors to the mobisite will be required to register which means that they only receive information they are interested in. |
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[Carole Kimutai] Safaricom has posted a KSh47.1 billion profit in the first half of its financial year that ended on 30 September 2010. The mobile operator continues to enjoy the lions share of the market with 17.71 million subscribers out of a total of 21.78 million. |
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[Carole Kimutai] The mobile payment phenomenon has led to the rapid growth of small enterprises in Kenya and seen large corporates embracing mobile payments. However, according to business analyst and publisher of Ratiomagazine.com Andrea Bohnstedt, the big challenge is setting up a back office for client service and developing a sustainable business concept. |
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[Carole Kimutai] Three years after Kenya's Safaricom launched its mobile money transfer service, MPesa, the company now has more than 11-million customers with money transfer worth KSh525-billion as of July 2010. The number of MPesa agents countrywide has risen to 19 502. |
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[Carole Kimutai] On Monday, 21 June, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) in partnership with the country's four mobile operators - Safaricom, Zain, Orange and Yu - launched a campaign for SIM card registration. |
| [Carole Kimutai] Equity Bank has partnered with Safaricom's M-Pesa money transfer service to launch a mobile bank account product known as M-Kesho - a Swahili term that refers to the future of mobile banking. M-Kesho will enable customers to transfer money to and from their M-Pesa Equity bank accounts via their mobile handsets with additional benefits. |
 | [Titus Kaloki] Kenya mobile telephony industry now accounts for 7% of mobile phone subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa. Kenya had 17.4 million mobile phone subscribers by end of June 2009, translating to 45.7% penetration. |
| [Titus Kaloki] The fourth entrant into the mobile services Kenyan market, YU has launched a mobile money transfer service. The service branded "yuCash by Obopay" is the latest in services the firm has unveiled. |
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[Titus Kaloki] Safaricom, a mobile service provider in Kenya has yet unveiled its ‘Managed Office in a Box' offer that saw it partner with Cisco, the global networking solutions provider. Cisco announced that it has joined forces with Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom to launch managed services based on Cisco equipment in the East African market. |
| [Carole Kimutai] The Pan African Infrastructure Development Fund (PAIDF) has invested KSh7,5 billion (US$93,75 million) in Essar Telecom Kenya Holdings Ltd (ETKHL) - a subsidiary of Essar Telecom Limited. |
