[Issa Sikiti da Silva] After sweeping the urban population off its feet, the mobile Internet revolution is now targeting the rural areas of Africa, where more than 70% of the continent's 890 million people live in extreme poverty and in the fringes of society, thanks to governments' ‘discriminatory' policies prioritising urban areas. 15 Oct 2009 07:29
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] After sweeping the urban population off its feet, the mobile Internet revolution is now targeting the rural areas of Africa, where more than 70% of the continent's 890 million people live in extreme poverty and in the fringes of society, thanks to governments' ‘discriminatory' policies prioritising urban areas. 15 Oct 2009 07:29
NAIROBI: Listed telecoms firm, Safaricom has said the orders given by President Mwai Kibaki for the registration of all mobile phone subscribers can only be achieved with the necessary legal framework in place. 27 Jul 2009 09:41
The global recession is having some effect on mobile advertisers, but mobile advertising continues its strong overall growth, said the results of BuzzCity's quarterly Global Mobile Advertising Index, yesterday, Tuesday, 14 July 2009. The company is a global provider of wireless communities and consumer services. 15 Jul 2009 08:42
[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. 1 Jul 2009 10:14
Safaricom has launched Kenya's first mobile internet portal, a service that will enable Safaricom subscribers get fast access to both local and international content on their mobile phones. 25 Jun 2009 12:51
Kenyan mobile network operator Orange Mobile, a subsidiary of Telkom Kenya, has within eight months of its launch managed to attract one million subscribers. 26 May 2009 10:35
Telkom Kenya on Monday, 18 May 2009 awarded its top leading sales agents and dealers from across the country for their sales performance during the ‘ShikaMore' phone bundle promotion that ran from September 2008 to January 2009. 19 May 2009 11:08
[Carole Kimutai] Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) customers are now able to pay their electricity bills using Zain's money transfer system, Zap. KPLC entered into an agreement with Zain Kenya allowing KPLC customers to pay their monthly electricity bills free of charge. 16 Apr 2009 10:28
NAIROBI: The ability to correctly diagnose and treat crop diseases such as banana wilt via mobile phone is just one of endless possibilities for smallholder farmers if location-specific (geospatial) information were available, according to researchers. 7 Apr 2009 14:24
[Titus Kaloki] MTN Africa has its eyes set firmly on finally entering the Kenyan market by offering to buy Econet Wireless International's (EWI) stake in local mobile provider Econet Wireless Kenya (EWK) which operates as Yu. Currently Yu is the latest entrant in the telecoms market and it has already had its share of trouble after its founding CEO, Mike Foley, resigned only six months after being appointed. 6 Apr 2009 10:29
[Carole Kimutai] The battle for a share of Kenya's growing mobile phone subscribers continues to intensify with Telkom Orange launching a migration service for new Orange Mobile subscribers from other networks. The new service christened Gura, (Swahili word that means moving houses), allows new Orange subscribers to automatically alert callers free-of-charge via a personalised SMS. 31 Mar 2009 09:33
[Titus Kaloki] With bated breath many in this tech-savvy East African country have been waiting to join the world of high speed internet connection. The digital divide is about to be reduced, thanks to the imminent arrival of fibre-optic cables on Kenyan shores this June. 23 Mar 2009 12:57