Articles tagged with: Safaricom

Safaricom Invests in Backup Batteries for Base Stations

­Kenya's safaricom has spent Sh96 million on more backup batteries for its base stations to try and address network outages caused by unreliable mains electricity supply.  more

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Safaricom Launches Phone Book Back-Up Service

Kenya's safaricom has launched a back-up service for phonebook contacts in customers handsets. The service is being provided by Gemalto.  more

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Safaricom Denies Role in Kenyan Election Results Delay

­Kenya's safaricom has denied that its systems were the cause of delays to the General Election results being transmitted from rural voting stations to the capital city.  more

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Nokia Launches Mobile Content Service in Kenya

­Nokia today announced that its Nokia Life mobile content service will launch in Kenya, one of Africa's largest economies, through a deal with safaricom and Airtel.  more

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Safaricom to Offer Unsecured Loans to Mobile Money Agents

­Kenya's safaricom is to offer its mobile banking agents an unsecured loan facility to help them expand their mobile money services -- after it signed a partnership with KCB Group, East and Central Africa's largest bank. more

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Safaricom Hikes Cost of Money Transfers Following Tax Changes

­Kenya's safaricom has raised the cost of sending money through its mobile money service, M-PESA following changes in government taxes.  more

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Safaricom Cuts Off 2.5 Million Unregistered SIM Cards

­Kenya's safaricom says that it has now disconnected 2.5 SIM cards from its network since the government ordered the mobile networks to only permit the use of registered SIM cards.  more

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Safaricom Accused to Stealing Idea for its Micro-Loans Service

­Kenya's safaricom is facing allegations that its new interest paying accounts and micro-loans service is based on an idea developed by the local micro-finance institution, Faulu Kenya.  more

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Vodafone's M-Pesa to Start Offering Small Loans to Savers

­Kenya's safaricom has expanded its M-Pesa mobile banking service into issuing small loans and paying interest on deposits.  more

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Safaricom Suffers Mobile Payments Outage

­Kenya's safaricom has suffered a major outage of its mobile money service, M-Pesa over the weekend, which it is blaming on the failure at a Vodafone data centre in Germany.  more

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