Jamii Telecommunications and Safaricom form strategic partnership.
Also in today’s Business Daily, Jamii Telecommunications and Safaricom have entered into a strategic partnership so that Safaricom can leverage their data infrastructure to reach more Internet users. The partnership will therefore see Safaricom competing for more and more retail and business Internet customers by using Jamii Telecommunications wireless, satellite
KWFT testing microloan payments via mobile phone.
In today’s edition of the Business Daily, its been reported that the Kenya Womens Finance Trust (KWFT) is currently testing micro loan repayments from its loanees using Safaricom’s hugely popular M-Pesa service on mobile phones. The pilot, if viable, will be extended to most of KWFT’s branches in coming month’s.
Orange Kenya drops Internet Everywhere Modem Prices.
In today’s major newspapers are full page ads that indicate Orange Kenya has lowered its Internet Everywhere modem pricing significantly. More specifically, the Internet Everywhere modem price has been reduced from Kes. 4,400.00 to Kes. 2,999.00, which is slightly cheaper than Safaricom’s 3G modem. At the same time, the prepaid