Browsing: Safaricom

Telco giant Safaricom is the most valuable Kenyan brand, estimated at $648 million. It also has the highest Sustainability Perceptions…

Safaricom and Nairobi City County have signed a partnership to digitise the county’s services and operations. Under the partnership, Safaricom…

Safaricom Ethiopia Service Revenue for the first month of operations was KSh 9.1 million, while Total Revenue, including handsets sales,…

Why does this happen? Is it governance? Is it the CEO? Is it the CEO’s relationship with the Board of Directors? Or is it something else?

High CEO turnover may boil down to an individual problem, but before pointing too many fingers, organizations may want to turn inward and seek any possible problems occurring in the history of the role as well.

Now, let us look at Kenya’s top four CEO changes in 2022.

Peter Ndegwa has mobilised his Kenyan counterparts to join the Africa Business Leaders Coalition  The Safaricom chief executive urged CEOs…

Safaricom has officially kicked off a large-scale customer pilot of its network in Ethiopia as part of ongoing plans to…

The Kenyan stock market resumed Wednesday following the general election break with a $268 million gain, as early results revealed a close contest involving Deputy President William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

Generally speaking, the proliferation of mobile phone technology has increased access to mobile money services (MMS) and is the backbone of mobile money deployment in both rural and urban areas of Africa.

“Despite its enormous benefits, embracing the usage and acceptance of mobile money has mostly been low due to security issues and challenges associated with the system,” warns professor Guma Ali from the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology.

In a paper titled ‘Evaluation of Key Security Issues Associated with Mobile Money Systems in Uganda,’ the pundit suggests the need to carry out a survey to evaluate the key security issues associated with mobile money systems in Uganda (and Africa).

In the study that followed, which employed a descriptive research design, and stratified random sampling technique to group the population, some 741 registered mobile money (MM) users and 447 registered MM agents along with 52 mobile network operators (MNOs) IT officers participated.

Brand Finance ranked giant telecommunications company Safaricom as the most valuable brand Equity Group Holdings Limited has become one of the…

Safaricom has appointed investment banker John Ngumi as their new chairman, effective August 1, 2022 The company unveiled Ngumi as…