Telkom Kenya has landed a strategic investor, few days after the Cabinet canceled a deal sealed last year between the telecommunication company and the previous government. A decision was made in 2022 for the government to purchase from London-based private equity firm Jamhuri/Helios the 60 per cent shareholding in Telkom Kenya. The President William Ruto...
Telkom Kenya has announced the completion of the Coast and Lower Eastern phase of its nationwide mobile LTE expansion programme, covering Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale, Lamu and Taita/Taveta, as well as Makueni, Machakos, Kitui and Kajiado Counties. The deployment of 224 mobile sites in those areas forms part of the nationwide network rollout plan that Telkom, together with...
In November 2021, Telkom signed an agreement with Ericsson and NEC XON for the extension of its 4G network in Kenya. The company, which wants to become an integrated telecom operator, has made its broadband network coverage one of its priorities to counter the hegemony of market leader Safaricom. Telecom operator Telkom Kenya has announced that...
Telkom Kenya says that it is facing delays in getting approval from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) for its two mobile money subsidiaries that it announced last year. According to Business Daily, the telecommunications company announced Telkom Digital and T-Kash in May 2021 as a bid to reorganise its company structure. T-Kash, the telco’s mobile...
Telkom Kenya is reportedly planning on introducing a credit product called T-Kash Loan. According to Techweez, the product has not been activated yet but the company has indicated on the T-Kash app that it is “coming soon.” T-Kash is a mobile payment solution owned by Telkom, a telecommunication provider with a presence in more than 38...
Telkom Kenya has launched a new product called the Chaga Bundle. This product will allow five users to share data and voice bundles at a price of $12.76. According to Techweez, a group of a minimum of three people and a maximum of 5 people can share 100 GB of data, 200 on-net minutes, 50 off-net...
The financial management of phase 1 of the national fiber optic network continues to raise concerns in Kenya. If the telecoms infrastructure remains in Telkom’s hands, without clear directions, the Kenyan government could lose more money over time. Katherine Getao, Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Information and Communication Technology Authority (ICTA), revealed the reasons why...
Telkom’s T-kash, the telco’s Kenyan-based mobile money platform, has been fully integrated into the governments’ digital services platform, Citizen. According to Gadgets Africa, this partnership will “enable T-kash customers to pay for National and County Government Services that are able to be found on the portal”. The list of services users will be able to pay...
Kenya’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has terminated its investigation into Telkom Kenya after concluding that its privatisation process was above board. Business Daily reports that the EACC concluded that there was no evidence of impropriety or culpability of the public officials involved when the state’s ownership in the telco was reduced back in 2012 and 2013....
Telkom Kenya CEO Mugo Kibati is on the spot for billing and collecting revenues, on behalf of the ICT ministry, from the users of National Fibre Optic Backbone Infrastructure (Nofbi) without the approval of the National Treasury as required by law. While appearing before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly Wednesday, Mr...
