High Court rules in favour of Safaricom & Airtel on direct royalties payments to musicians

Makena Ndung'uAugust 20, 2025

The High Court in Nairobi has ruled against a petition that sought to force mobile operators Safaricom and Airtel to directly pay musicians for their callba...

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Airtel Money partners with pawaPay to power money transfers to Africa

Makena Ndung'uAugust 7, 2025

Airtel Money Africa has announced a partnership with pawaPay to enable cross-border payments for licensed International Money Transfer Operators (IMTOs) across ...

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Airtel Kenya now has 24 million customers

Samson NderiJuly 15, 2025

Airtel Kenya has crossed the 24 million subscriber mark through its network campaign as expansion plans continue. This achievement was highlighted in the latest...

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Airtel Money customers to get 50% of bank-to-wallet transaction fees back as airtime

Samson NderiJune 5, 2025

Airtel Money Kenya has announced a new offer under the Rudishiwa transaction fee campaign series, extending the offer to all Bank to Airtel money Wallet transfe...

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Airtel Kenya launches new service to help customers flag spam messages

Makena Ndung'uMay 7, 2025

Airtel Kenya has launched a ground-breaking artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Spam Alert Service, which will be available to all its subscribers at no cost. ...

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Airtel partners with SpaceX to expand Starlink’s availability in Africa

Makena Ndung'uMay 5, 2025

Airtel Africa has today announced a partnership with SpaceX to bring Starlink’s high-speed internet services to its customers in Africa. Currently, SpaceX ha...

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Airtel Kenya unveils new campaign offering increased data for monthly & weekly plans

Grace MathekaOctober 28, 2024

Airtel Kenya has launched a new Data ImeData campaign offering their weekly and monthly data customers up to 50% more data from Ksh. 50 to Ksh. 1,000. The Amazi...

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Airtel Money customers can now make payments to merchants via Lipa Na KCB

Grace MathekaSeptember 25, 2024

KCB Bank Kenya and Airtel Money Kenya have announced an interoperability partnership. Following the partnership deal, Airtel Money customers will now be able to...

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Airtel opens new outlet in downtown Nairobi in a bid to boost its money services

Grace MathekaJuly 12, 2024

Airtel Kenya has opened a new shop in Nairobi’s downtown CBD. The new outlet is located on Gaborone Road, adjacent to Nairobi Textiles, and brings the total num...

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Airtel Kenya opens new customer care shop in Mandera town

Grace MathekaJune 20, 2024

Airtel Kenya has launched a new customer care shop in Mandera town, in line with its ongoing network expansion strategy across the country. The new shop, which ...

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Introducing Airtel 4G & 5G Internet solutions for businesses

Makena Ndung'uMay 31, 2024

Airtel SmartNET is a business Internet package that provides unlimited speeds and provides a daily bonus data allocation once your data bundle is depleted. It i...

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Airtel Africa commits to providing access to quality education to African children

Samson NderiMarch 7, 2023

Airtel Africa has restated its commitment to providing access to quality education to African children, through digital channels. Airtel is a provider of teleco...

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Telkom & Airtel customers can now make payments via M-Pesa Paybill numbers

Staff WriterJuly 15, 2022

Telkom, Safaricom, and Airtel, have announced that Kenyans can now make direct mobile money payments to an M-PESA Pay Bill Number from any network. This move f...

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Airtel Kenya launches new initiative to promote electronic waste recycling

James WamathaiJune 9, 2022

Airtel Kenya has announced that it has launched a new initiative to promote electronic waste recycling in Kenya. The telecommunication company, a subsidiary ...

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One can now pay for goods on Lipa na Mpesa Till using T-kash and Airtel Money

Samson NderiApril 8, 2022

Telkom, Safaricom, and Airtel have today announced the interoperability of their mobile money service platforms. This will allow Kenyans to make mobile money pa...

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Equity Bank revamps its *247# USSD service to allow customers access loans among other features

Samson NderiFebruary 3, 2022

Equity Bank has revamped its USSD service (*247#) in a bid to offer customers a seamless banking experience. The newly updated USSD offers a unified service off...

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Airtel Africa set to join the FTSE 100 on 31st January, 2022

Grace MathekaJanuary 29, 2022

Index manager FTSE Russell has announced that the Airtel Africa Group will be joining the FTSE 100 Monday 31st January, 2022. Through its mobile telecoms and mo...

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Airtel Business partners with Cisco to secure internet connections for SMEs in Africa

Grace MathekaNovember 26, 2021

Airtel Africa through its B2B provider Airtel Business, has partnered with Cisco to provide secure internet access to SMEs in Africa. This is in support of thei...

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Airtel customers can now enjoy more data with the new monthly Bazu data bundles

Grace MathekaNovember 24, 2021

Airtel Kenya has launched a new data bundle that will allow its customers to enjoy more data. The new offer dubbed Bazu data bundle will give customers the oppo...

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Unwanted Witness report reveals Uganda’s top data collectors struggle with data protection & privacy compliance

Grace MathekaNovember 9, 2021

Unwanted Witness has released an analysis evaluating how Uganda’s top data collectors adhere to privacy standards and best practices that protect consumers’ per...

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Airtel Africa commits Ksh. 6.3B to promote digital learning for children across Africa

Grace MathekaNovember 1, 2021

Airtel Africa and UNICEF have announced a 5-year pan-African partnership to help accelerate the roll-out of digital learning through connecting schools to the i...

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Airtel Africa reports a Ksh. 21 B net profit in Q2 ending September 30

Grace MathekaOctober 29, 2021

Airtel Africa has registered a net profit of Ksh. 21 billion ($192 million) in the fiscal second quarter, which more than doubled compared to a similar period i...

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Airtel Money partners with Flutterwave to enhance payment options for businesses

Grace MathekaOctober 5, 2021

Airtel Money has announced a partnership with Flutterwave, a payments solution company, to expand its mobile money services to businesses in Eastern Africa. ...

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Segun Ogunsanya begins new role as CEO at Airtel Africa

Grace MathekaOctober 5, 2021

Following his appointment as Managing Director and CEO at Airtel Africa in April this year, Olusegun Segun Ogunsanya, has begun his new role as at 1st October, ...

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Airtel partners with World Remit to enable customers receive money from 129 countries worldwide

Grace MathekaSeptember 22, 2021

Airtel through its e-money platform Airtel Money has partnered with World Remit to enable Airtel customers to receive money from 129 countries across the world,...

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Airtel customers can now pay for KAPS parking via Airtel Money

Grace MathekaAugust 25, 2021

Airtel Kenya, a subsidiary of Airtel Africa, has partnered with the Kenya Airports Parking Services (KAPS) to enable Airtel customers conveniently pay for their...

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Airtel’s Segun Ogunsanya named African Business Leader of the Year at the 2021 African Business Leadership Awards

Grace MathekaAugust 20, 2021

Airtel Africa Group CEO-designate, Segun Ogunsanya has been awarded the African Business Leader of the Year at the 2021 African Business Leadership Awards (ABLA...

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Kenyan telcos hike tariff charges for calls & data in response to Excise Duty Act amendment

Grace MathekaJuly 7, 2021

Late last week, Parliament passed the Finance Act 2021, which is an amendment to the Excise Duty Act 2015. This amendment has seen the excise duty on telephone ...

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Airtel customers will now be able to access MYDAWA services free of data costs

Grace MathekaMay 26, 2021

Airtel Kenya has announced a partnership with MYDAWA, an e-pharmacy in Kenya, to enable Airtel customers access the MYDAWA website and mobile app free of data c...

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Lucille Aveva appointed as Safaricom Director for new Customer Obsession department

Grace MathekaMay 4, 2021

Safaricom CEO, Peter Ndegwa, has appointed Lucille Aveva as Customer-Obsession, effective May 1, 2021. The new role has been created in line with Safaricom's mi...

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Airtel Africa’s mobile money business receives Ksh. 1.09 billion investment from Mastercard

Grace MathekaApril 1, 2021

Airtel Africa has announced the signing of an agreement under which Mastercard will invest Ksh. 1.09 billion ($100 million) in Airtel Mobile Commerce BV (AMC BV...

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The Rise Fund injects Ksh. 22 billion into Airtel Mobile money platform

Grace MathekaMarch 19, 2021

Airtel Africa has announced the signing of an agreement under which The Rise Fund, will invest Ksh. 22 billion ($200 million) in Airtel Mobile Commerce (AMC BV)...

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CA partners with Kenyan telcos to promote a safer Internet in Kenya

Grace MathekaFebruary 10, 2021

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has launched an interactive portal aimed at creating a safer Internet in Kenya. The micro-site, cop.ke-cirt.go.ke,...

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3 M-PESA alternatives that you can use for your mobile money needs

Samson NderiJanuary 5, 2021

Mobile money transaction is big business in Kenya with the best known platform being M-PESA. M-PESA was launched in 2007 by Kenya's mobile telecommunications co...

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New CA report shows influx in demand for Internet access in Kenya

Grace MathekaJanuary 5, 2021

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has released its Sector Statistics Report for the First Quarter of the 2020/21 Financial Year. This current report co...

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Airtel Money transactions below Ksh. 100 to be free from 1st Jan 2021

Makena Ndung'uDecember 24, 2020

Airtel Kenya has today announced that all Airtel Money person to person money transfers below Ksh. 100 will be free from 1st January 2021. This new developme...

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Airtel customers to get 25% extra airtime for purchases via Airtel Money

Samson NderiDecember 23, 2020

Airtel Kenya has announced that its customers will receive a 25% airtimes bonus once they buy the airtime through Airtel Money, the company's mobile money platf...

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Airtel Money customers will now be able to receive MoneyGram money transfers

Staff WriterAugust 26, 2020

Airtel and MoneyGram have announced a new partnership to enable Airtel Money customers in Africa to receive MoneyGram money transfers. The partnership enabl...

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Airtel & Mukuru partner to facilitate money transfers within Africa

Staff WriterJuly 24, 2020

Telecommunication company, Airtel Africa, has announced that it has partnered with Mukuru to power cross border money transfer within Africa. This partnersh...

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There is a need for relevant content to promote digital inclusion according to GSMA

Samson NderiMay 30, 2020

Lack of compelling online content has been identified as one of the major reasons why millions of people are still digitally excluded especially in Sub - Sahara...

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UNICEF & Airtel partner to support children & families affected by COVID-19

Staff WriterMay 21, 2020

UNICEF have partnered with Airtel Africa to support children and families affected by the crisis the COVID-19 pandemic has created. Under the new partnershi...

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Latest CA report shows Zuku leading with the highest fibre customers

Staff WriterApril 3, 2020

Communications Authority of Kenya(CA) has released the latest statistics for the communications sector in the country. The report is based on data provided by s...

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