Telkom Kenya will spend Ksh1 billion to improve mobile connectivity to boost quality of services to its customers, an initiative that will revive its efforts to compete with market leaders Safaricom and Airtel.
The investment will support expansion and optimisation of its 4G and 3G networks to deliver the value-compelling alternative to Kenyan consumers.
“It remains our objective to entrench our position as Kenya’s preferred Data network, which can only be achieved through the evolution of our network to become a stronger and future fit Telco. The strategic support from our shareholders and other partners is giving impetus to our data network expansion strategy,” said Telkom chief executive Mugo Kibati.
Within the first half of 2019, the company will partner with Loon LLC to launch an innovative 4G/LTE access network service in the country using high altitude balloons to improve network coverage in areas like Nanyuki, Nyeri, Thika and Nakuru.
Loon LLC is a sister company of Google and a subsidiary of Alphabet.
Its investments will go to improve infrastructure focused on access, transmission and IT components boosting its network accessibility and reliability.
It will also invest in its Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB) network to improve the quality of services offered to the enterprise and corporate customers.
