Safaricom

Safaricom, Kenya's leading telco has partnered with Ria Money Transfer, to enable the over 26 million M-PESA customers to receive international money transfers from over 20 countries across the world. With the new partnership, transactions made using Ria will be a lot more seamless. This... Read More

Safaricom is today 19 years old and true to the company's 'birthday tradition', its customers have something to smile about. Last year, Safaricom marked its 18th anniversary with a campaign dubbed ‘Nawe Kila Wakati’ where customers received 18 minutes of talk time every day for... Read More

Call divert is a phone feature that enables the user to forward or redirect their incoming calls to an alternate number. These can be a landline or cellular number. Usually, users choose to divert incoming calls directly to their voicemail. When call divert is enabled,... Read More

Following the death of Bob Collymore yesterday morning, Safaricom PLC board of directors has appointed former Safaricom CEO, who also happens to be one of the board members, as the interim CEO of the giant telco. Michael Joseph had been at the helm of Safaricom... Read More

Safaricom will start a joint venture with Vodacom to acquire the intellectual property rights to M-Pesa mobile financial services platform from Britain’s Vodafone, Safaricom’s CEO said on Thursday. The $13.4 million (Sh1.3 billion) deal will let both purchasers make significant savings in royalties paid to... Read More

Back in the day, calling was the most common way to stay in touch with friends and family. Then came the era of texting, that was quickly followed by the dawn of the digital age. Today, everyone you know has a smartphone. Subscribing to an... Read More

In light of recent aggressive pricing of products from Telkom and Airtel, Safaricom is trying to keep up by today introducing a new 'all in one monthly bundles' that should see its customers enjoy discounted data and call rates, all in one convenient package. In... Read More

Just like MTN Uganda Mobile money users can send money directly to Safaricom M-Pesa mobile users or MTN Rwanda in an instant, MTN Rwanda subscribes can as well send money to MTN Uganda and Safaricom users via mobile money. If you've wanted to send money... Read More

The three main telcos in Kenya; Airtel, Safaricom, and Telkom all offer Postpaid packages. A postpaid mobile plan is a mobile plan for which service is provided by a prior arrangement with a mobile network operator. The user in this situation is billed after the... Read More