Airtel Africa Profits Up 408% in Q1 as Customer Base Increases by 14 Million
Airtel Africa's Profit after tax soared by over 400% to US$156 million in Q1 2026, with revenues up 22% to US$1.42 billion, compared to the same period last year. Metric [...]
Safaricom Surpasses 50 Million Customers Ahead of Silver Jubilee
Safaricom PLC has surpassed 50 million customers on its Kenyan mobile network, affirming its position as East Africa’s largest telecommunications provider. The company pioneered M-PESA in 2007, which is now [...]Expensive Mobile Data is Stalling Africa’s Digital Leap, World Bank
Sub-Saharan Africa faces a significant hurdle in its digital transformation journey, prohibitively expensive mobile data, a new study by World Bank documents. For the poorest 40% of the population, this [...]
Bolt Launches New Family Profile for Up to Nine People
Ride-hailing platform Bolt has introduced a new Family Profile feature that allows one person to manage and pay rides for up to nine other people from a single Bolt account. [...]African Tech Firm Aura Eyes US Market with Ksh2Bn Series B Funding
Aura, an African life saving technology platform with operations in Kenya and South Africa, is expanding its services to the US market citing opportunities in the security sector and advancement of technology [...]Court Strikes Down IMEI Registration Move, Citing Surveillance Risks
The High Court has struck down the government's IMEI registration directive, ruling it unconstitutional and lacking a legal basis, effectively halting plans for a central mobile device database linked to [...]Judiciary's Digital Systems Hacked, Disrupting Case Filing System
The Judiciary is experiencing ongoing disruptions to its digital systems, including its eFiling and Cause List platforms, following a series of technical issues that began late last week. In a [...]Airtel Kenya Seeks to Ride Subscriber Growth Tailwind With New Campaign
Kenya's mobile subscription market experienced a significant 6.7% surge in the first three months of 2025, following near stagnation in the preceding three quarters. Airtel attributes its subscriber surge, which [...]Craft Silicon Pilots AI Chatbot for Kenya's Banking System
Tech company Craft Silicon is piloting agenerative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbotlinked to banking core systems able to answer different financial related queries in both English and local languages. “The user [...]AI-Mimicking Cyberthreats Surge 115% in 2025, Targeting Small Businesses
In 2025, nearly 8,500 users from small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) globally have faced cyberattacks where malicious or unwanted software was disguised as popular online productivity tools, cybersecurity and antivirus [...]
Why Telkom Kenya Is Falling Behind in Kenya’s Telecom Race
Kenya’s telecommunications sector is booming, with mobile subscriptions surging past 76 million and mobile money accounts exceeding 45 million by March 2025. The market is vibrant, with aggressive campaigns by [...]Almost Everyone in Kenya Now Owns a Smartphone
The number of smartphones connected to mobile networks rose to 42.3 million, representing a penetration rate of 80.8%, by the end of March 2025, according to the latest data from [...]
