Something interesting happened a couple of weeks ago and no one seems to be really saying much about the other side of this story. In late October 2023, Safaricom announced price reductions and package changes around its 5G WiFi router offerings and more specifically those targeting consumers. To be specific,

What is a super app? If you go online, it’s broadly defined as a mobile app that combines multiple services into one platform. Typically, a super app may include social networking, e-commerce, banking, messaging, food delivery, transportation features, etc. A super app will also usually have ‘mini-apps’ embedded in it

I wrote a blog post here back in November 2013 on Safaricom’s East Africa roaming bundles that aimed to reduce the cost of mobile roaming charges substantially in Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda for their travelling subscribers from Kenya. The savings, as you will note in that blog post, were quite