In the news this week, Equity Bank and Safaricom have announced a strategic partnership for M-Pesa. Basically, any of M-Pesa’s 8 million subscribers in Kenya will now be able to make card-less drawings from any of Equity Bank’s 550 automated teller machines (ATMs) throughout Kenya. This is not the first

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

Safaricom is already undoubtedly a major player for Internet access at the consumer level with its 3G offering, Safaricom Live. The ability to access broadband Internet in most parts of Kenya on your phone or via a modem has made the Internet truly mobile for lots of folks. In fact,