Kenya Data Network (KDN) has this week launched a new low cost and unlimited broadband internet service for Kenya’s small office home office (SoHo) market to be known as Butterfly Optic Xpress or “BOX” for short. The service has been aggressively priced lower than any other comparable product in the

There is something almost too successful about Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile network. Apart from being the largest company in East Africa in terms of revenues, Safaricom continues to morph from being “just” a mobile network into so much more at the detriment of (formerly) formidable incumbents. Today, Safaricom is not

In the month of October 2009, I had the opportunity to attend the inaugural Mobile Web Africa Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. The two day event proved to be a real eye opener in terms of what is possible on the mobile web and how much ahead South Africa is.