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Articles tagged with: Safaricom
Zain Kenya Applies for 3G License
Zain's Kenyan subsidiary has applied to buy a 3G license from the telecoms regulator, making it the second operator in the country, after safaricom, to hold a 3G license. The company is expected to pay $25 million for the license. more
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Kenyans Living in the UK Can Send Money to Mobile Phones in Kenya
Kenyans can now receive money from friends and family in the United Kingdom directly to their M-PESA mobile banking accounts. The launch of the international component of M-PESA, managed by safaricom follows a successful pilot project with selected outlets in the UK. more
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Alvarion Wins Kenyan WiMAX Contract
WiMAX vendor, Alvarion says that it has selected by Kenya's safaricom for a three-year turnkey WiMAX project. more
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Safaricom Base Station Also Powers Local School
Kenya's safaricom has unveiled a new Base Transmission Station in Kacheliba, West Pokot that will also transfer its surplus electricity to the local school. more
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Safaricom Launches Solar-Powered Mobile Phone
Kenyan mobile network operator, safaricom has launched a solar-powered mobile phone. Branded Simu ya Solar and manufactured under a partnership with ZTE, the handset is made from recycled materials and has an in-built solar panel. more
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Kenya's Safaricom Buys WiMAX Network Operator
Kenya's safaricom says that it has signed an agreement to buy local WiMAX operator, Packet Stream Data Networks for an undisclosed amount. The intended acquisition comes on the back of safaricom's recent appointment of Jamii Telecommunications as its preferred partner in the rollout of it optical fibre network. more
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Vodafone Reported to Have Brought Out Controversial Shareholder
It has been reported by local media that Vodafone has brought out its controversial minority shareholder in its Kenyan subsidiary. The Daily Nation newspaper reported that Vodafone may have paid as much as Sh6 billion (US$100 million) for the stake in its local holding company held by Mobitelea. more
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Safaricom Full-Year Profits Drop 23%
Kenya's safaricom has seen a twenty-three percent fall in its full year profits to Kshs 10.54 billion (US$136 million), from Kshs 13.85 billion (US$179 million) in the last fiscal year. The company said that the drop was due to increased depreciation in line with the increased capital investment. Revenues however were up by 14.8% to Kshs 70.5 billion (US$910 million). more
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Kenya's Subscriber Growth Reaches 40% in 2008
The Kenyan market saw some major developments in the second half of 2008: in Q3, fixed operator Telkom Kenya launched a mobile network, and in the last quarter of the year, Econet Wireless finally managed to get up and running, more than five years after it was first awarded a licence. At the end of 2008, there were 15.90m mobile customers in Kenya. Annual net additions stood at 4.55m, up from 4.08m a year earlier, but proportionate growth fell from 56.0% to 40.1%. Fourth-quarter net additions increased from 0.65m in Q4 07 to 1.37 in Q4 08. more
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Econet Denies MTN Interest in Kenyan Network
Econet Wireless Kenya, which trades under the Yu brandname, has refuted local media reports that South Africa's MTN has offered US$450 for a stake in the company. The reports are "rumors," Chief Executive Officer Srinivasa Iyengar told reporters in Nairobi. The story emerged in Kenya's Standard newspaper. more
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