Below is an interview that I had with Samsung’s Robert Ngeru during the Kenya launch of the hotly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3 a couple of days ago: The Samsung Galaxy S3 has been massively successful having pre-sold over 10 million units prior to launching on a global basis. In addition,

Kenya leads the world in mobile money. This is a fact as over 18 million mobile subscribers are signed up for Safaricom’s wildly successful M-Pesa offering. It’s hard to imagine that just a few years ago although Safaricom’s M-Pesa was just taking off and most of the Banks in Kenya

press release • Permanent tariff informed by Orange Mobile customer demand and uptake of the new offer • 24 hour bundle includes unlimited free calls and SMSs within Orange network, 20 free off-net SMSes and free 10 MB data daily • The Holla tariff includes free access to Facebook Zero