It was inevitable after Zain and YU lowered their call and SMS rates in Kenya dramatically last week as posted on this blog. Therefore, in a move that is likely to retain Safaricom’s 16+ million subscribers it today launched a new promotional tariff that will see its subscribers call from

I just managed to get my hands on some recent research by Synovate on Internet usage trends in Kenya for the second quarter of 2010. The findings are fairly brief and build upon the more comprehensive research that was released by Synovate in February 2010 and also as posted on

This is a another BBC News feature that was aired this week. Lots of the footage is from the MobileMonday Kenya meeting that was held earlier this week at the iHub. BBC’s Egon Cossou interviewed Jessica Colaco from the iHub and Sam Gichuru of Ideas Africa.