Cell phones in Kenya
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Kenyans embrace mobile banking To pick up money sent by her husband, who works at a remote Kenyan hospital, Rosalyn Khanyaha used to have to take an hourlong bus ride to the nearest city with a money-wiring office, or risk the cash being sent by bus. Now her husband texts her money on her mobile phone, money she c...Kenyan Operator to Offer Mobile Money Transfers from the UK Kenya's Safaricom and The Western Union Company are to pilot a cross-border Mobile Money Transfer (MMT) service between the UK and Kenya....Kenya's Safaricom Boosting Indoor Mobile Coverage Kenyan mobile operator, Safaricom is boosting indoor coverage at forty sites around the country - based on InterReach Fusion from ADC. The installation was carried out by AlanDick East Africa, ADC’s distributor in Kenya....Econet Finally Launches its Network in Kenya Kenya gained a fourth mobile network as Econet Wireless Kenya (EWK) said that it will finally launch its network today - after five years of delays caused by legal problems and financial woes....Kenya Makes Second Attempt at Offer Mobile Number Portability Kenya's long delayed plans for mobile number portability (MNP) seem to be back on track again after the regulator confirmed that the service would be launched next year....Safaricom Subscriber Base Jumps 50% in Six Months Kenyan mobile operator, Safaricom has reported that it subscriber base rose over the six months to October by 50.3% over prior year position of 7.956 million to 11.956 million - while turnover increased by 20% compared to September 2007 to US$469 million....Buongiorno Upgrades Agreement With Orange in Africa Mobile content distributor, Buongiorno says that it has signed a larger agreement with Orange for the management of the operator's WAP portals in Africa. The new contract supersedes a previous agreement that saw Buongiorno providing Orange with interactive mobile services and CRM....Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms....Kenya to Scrap Foreign Investor Rules The Kenyan government has announced plans to scrap a law which had required foreign firms to have local partners if investing in the telecoms industry. Under the current system, any investor has to allocate at least twenty percent of the company to a local partner, which has caused legal problems in the past....Airspan Networks has been selected by One Communications (OneCom), a newly-acquired subsidiary of Kenya's Safaricom, as their WiMAX infrastructure partner.... |