In a story published in this Sunday’s edition of the East African Standard, almost a decade after it heralded a virtual mobile revolution in Kenya, catapulting it into the region’s most profitable company, Safaricom is harnessing new areas to underpin future growth. The shift from over-reliance on voice as the

According to an article by Mark Okuttah in today’s edition of the Business Daily, Internet surfing on mobile phones is booming Kenya. The article cites recent research by Opera, a cross-platform web browser company that has its software installed on a good number of internet-enabled phones globally. According to the

According to a just released economic survey by Kenya’s Ministry of Finance, Kenya’s internet and mobile usage grew substantively in 2008 in spite of the negative effects post-election violence and the global economic meltdown. The figures released by the Ministry of Finance indicate that internet usage grew from 2.9 million