In the media this past week, Zain Kenya has launched “Jikonnect”, a range of low-cost (and apparently permanent) tariffs for voice calls on and off their network. The way Jikonnect works is that on-network calls between the hours of 6.00 pm and 6.00 am are only Kes. 3.00 per minute

In an earlier post on this blog a couple of months ago, I had expressed my dissatisfaction that all the mobile operators in Kenya seemed to be launching “me too” Internet services in the marketplace which had almost identical features and lacked creativity that was market-driven. Therefore, it came as

In the news this week, Zain and Housing Finance have announced a strategic partnership based on the Zain’s Zap mobile money service. The partnership will enable Zain Zap users to deposit and withdraw mobile money at any of Housing Finance’s 10 branches in Kenya. At the same time, Housing Finance