Safaricom

Safaricom usually deactivates sim cards that have not been in use for six months, regardless of the mobile money balance.

So rife has the menace been that in 2019, Safaricom, introduced to check its spread and warned its customers to be vigilant about the globally-prevalent trend, which is not restricted to only the east African country or the continent.

Safaricom, with a substantial advertising budget, has occasionally pulled ads in response to negative coverage, illustrating the complex balance between media independence and financial sustainability.

Employees of Safaricom based at one of the company's customer care shop have all tested positive of Covid-19.

In East African countries such as Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, it is already the currency of choice for everything from daily shopping to paying bills, driven largely by the success of Safaricom's service M-Pesa.

Safaricom has launched a new Skiza Advertising platform that aims to provide SMEs the opportunity to advertise their services.

The bodies responsible for telecommunications security are the phone companies such as Safaricom and Airtel and government, with the main task falling on the Communications Authority of Kenya.

The Bonga loyalty scheme allows enrolled customers to accumulate a point for every KES 10 spent on services on the Safaricom network.

The incident came two days after suspected Al-Shabaab militants destroyed a Safaricom communications mast in Khorof Kharar in Wajir County.

This included the high profile listings of KENGEN and SAFARICOM.

Twitter and Safaricom need to reconsider the +8988 Sms service.

Bob Collymore, chief executive officer of Safaricom, Kenya’s mobile network operator, died on Monday after battling cancer for two years.

Dahir Amin Jesow, an outspoken lawmaker said Kenyan forces are helping Safaricom in the trade battle with Somalia's telecom companies providing phone services in border areas.

Last year, Safaricom and NEMA renewed their Memorandum of Understanding to promote environmental management in Kenya.

Ogilvy Africa handles Pan-African communication for various global and African brands including Airtel, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Safaricom, Equity Bank Group, Diageo and more.

Safaricom chair Nicholas Ng’ang’a has also raised an issue with the planned merger saying there is a need to rebalance the frequencies allocation as well as equal treatment of operators specifically in relation to licensing and operations requirements.

Safaricom will need US$2-billion to launch a telecoms network in Ethiopia, according to the company’s managing director Michael Joseph.

There was, however, plenty of scuttlebutt about powers within Safaricom — resistant to the brand of bureaucracy rattling change Alpha could bring — conspiring to push him out.

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Scoring deals with Safaricom and most recently with Remy Martin, a French cognac company, has been some of his biggest highlights as a brand.