Tag: Airtel Kenya
Airtel upgrades sites to support 5G technology
Airtel Kenya has upgraded 600 of its sites in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Malindi to support 5G technology in the country as the...
Airtel, Nokia lay 5G foundation in Nairobi
African mobile operator, Airtel Kenya has picked Nokia to modernize Nairobi with high speed 4G and 5G-ready hardware from its comprehensive AirScale...
Airtel picks Ericsson to modernize its 4G network in Kenya
Airtel Africa has expanded its strategic partnership with Ericsson to enable 4G coverage in Kenya.
With Ericsson’s Radio...
Airtel launches free video-on-demand service
Telecommunications
firm Airtel has launched a free video on demand service dubbed Airtel TV in an effort
to expand its customer base while tapping...
Airtel, Telkom oppose CAK merger conditions
Network
service providers Airtel and Telkom Kenya are opposing conditions set by the
Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) ahead of their planned merger.
Mobile money transactions increase by 47% in Q2 2019
By Reuters
Transactions worth 2.1 trillion shillings ($20.3 billion) were conducted via Kenyan mobile money services in...
Telkom to retrench 72 percent of workforce
Telkom Kenya, the country’s third largest telco in terms of market share, is set to reduce its current workforce by 72 percent...
Airtel speeds up 4G expansion in urban areas
With rival Telco Safaricom upgrading its internet provision network to 400G, Airtel has followed suit by hastening its 4G network expansion drive...
Airtel introduces new tariff in an attempt to grow customer base
In a bid to improve its consumer base, mobile service provider Airtel Kenya has unveiled a holiday tariff that will allow customers to make...
Safaricom loses market share in third quarter, Airtel grows, CA report...
Telecommunications giant Safaricom lost 1.2 percentage of market share during the period between July and September 2018 to stand at 64.2 per cent, a...