Safaricom
Safaricom offers mobile communication, mobile money services, internet provisioning, and digital solutions in Kenya.
- Business
Safaricom’s Share Sale Explained: The KES 245B Vodacom Deal, 9 Key Conditions, and M-Pesa’s Future
Vodacom takes 55% control of Safaricom in a KES 245B deal as Kenya retains 20% to fund new infrastructure projects.
- News
Safaricom slips new promo offers into M-PESA transactions to Airtel
Safaricom appears to have quietly rolled out a new, rather unusual behaviour inside the M-PESA SIM Toolkit, and it’s already…
- News
Safaricom now requires users to reconfirm M-PESA recipient number when using SIM Toolkit
Safaricom appears to be rolling out a new SIM Toolkit (STK) change that adds an extra confirmation step when sending…
- Interesting Reads
Safaricom at 25: How a Telco Became Kenya’s Operating System
Trace Safaricom’s journey from 2G voice calls to a 5G-powered technology giant. A complete timeline of Kenya’s digital revolution.
- News
You can now buy B-Live data bundle directly from MySafaricom app on iOS
Safaricom is making it easier for users to purchase B-Live time-based data bundles, with the latest update to the MySafaricom…
- News
Safaricom Connect Academy hands 98% of Cohort 1 graduates job offers: Why you need to apply for Cohort 2
Safaricom’s newest talent bet isn’t another flashy product launch or limited-time data bundle. Instead, it’s a quiet but consequential investment…
- News
Safaricom Daraja 3.0: The Cloud-Native Leap to 12,000 TPS
Safaricom launches Daraja 3.0 with 12k TPS and native AI, transforming M-PESA into a scalable, cloud-native fintech operating system
- News
Safaricom users seeing reduced ‘No Expiry’ data allocations & a strange spending cap, fix coming
If you tried to top up your Safaricom ‘No Expiry’ data bundles recently, you might have been met with an…
- Featured
Safaricom vs Airtel: Who is doing better at fighting spam SMS?
If you’re a Safaricom user in Kenya right now, your SMS inbox likely looks like a crime scene. Between unsolicited…
- News
Safaricom’s Fintech 2.0 upgrade officially ends M-PESA maintenance downtimes
For M-PESA, a service that has become synonymous with the Kenyan economy, system downtime even for scheduled maintenance has always…
- Interesting Reads
What Happens to M-PESA Funds When You Die? A Complete Guide to Claiming Next of Kin Assets
Using a deceased relative’s PIN is actually a crime. Here is the legal 3-tier process to claim M-PESA funds correctly.
- News
M-PESA is finally getting Tap-to-Pay, wallet sharing & AI fraud detection with major ‘Fintech 2.0’ upgrade
Safaricom is revamping its cornerstone mobile money platform, M-PESA, to meet the escalating demands of the modern digital economy. Group…
- News
Vodacom and Starlink Partnership Expands African Broadband Access
Vodacom partners with Starlink for satellite broadband across Africa, targeting 260 million mobile and 120 million financial services users by…
- Interesting Reads
Safaricom’s “Leapfrog” Strategy: How M-PESA Ethiopia is Rewriting the Mobile Money Playbook
In Ethiopia, the problem isn't sending money—it's carrying it. How M-PESA is solving the 'cash bulk' challenge
- News
Safaricom aware of major Lipa na M-PESA bug in SIM Toolkit menu, fix in the works
For more than a year, I’ve been dealing with a strange but deeply inconvenient issue whenever I try to use…
