In the news today, Zain, Kenya’s second largest mobile network has lowered its internet charges by approximately 25%. The move is expected to increase the number of subscribers that Zain has to-date by making internet access significantly more affordable, country-wide. It also means that Zain is responding to the recent

Its official. According to various media sources, the much awaited SEACOM high speed undersea cable will not go live at the end of June 2009 as initially announced in Kenya. The go live of SEACOM has been delayed by a month to the end of July 2009, largely due to

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