Kenyan operator Safaricom has partnered with retail chains Uchumi Supermarkets and Naivas, in order to give M-Pesa subscribers the ability to use the service to purchase goods in the stores.
Old Mutual Kenya: “Lower costs, enhanced flexibility and new revenue streams are making cloud a technology of choice”
Tom Juma is the Head of ICT and Service Delivery for savings and investments firm Old Mutual Kenya and will be a speaker on Day 1 of the Cloud Africa Com at the Sandton Sun Hotel in Johannesburg on 23-24 May. We caught up with him ahead of the show to get his views on the future of cloud services in Africa.
Safaricom threatens to pull out of LTE venture
Kenya’s Safaricom has said it will pull out of a joint venture to build an LTE network in the county if it is forced by its government to use the 2.6GHz frequency band. The company has pointed out that the 2.6GHz frequency band will make it be prohibitively expensive to build out an LTE network across the country, due to its limited range. Safaricom is instead seeking assurances that it will be able to use 700MHz, which requires far fewer base stations and has higher in building penetration capabilities.
Vodafone snaps up M-Pesa pioneer
Vodafone Group has appointed M-Pesa pioneer Michael Joseph as its new managing director for mobile payments. Joseph was instrumental in establishing the M-Pesa money transfer service in Kenya, Tanzania and Afghanistan in his previous role as Safari Telecom’s chief executive. Safaricom is a Vodafone affiliate.
Kenya lowers “virtually all regulatory fees” for operators
The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) said that it has lowered “virtually all regulatory fees”, including frequency fees. The move is the CCK’s first major general regulatory fees review since 2000.
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