Every day we come across advertisements in the media of items such as phones, TVs, fridges and many others. Quite often, some of the features that ‘add value’ to these items are usually very complex for the user or not important at all. The recent wave of smart phone use…

  A mobile user makes a call. (Image: COFEK) It is indisputable that the world has become a small village and the more people get connected business wise and socially, the need to communicate within the global village grows bigger. The internet through social media and email messaging solved…

  Mobile phone subscribers on the Safaricom network will get a 50% bonus airtime when they top up from the operator’s mobile money service M-Pesa. This is a top-up to the May 10% bonus that the company has been offering on purchase of airtime from M-Pesa. The 10% bonus offer…

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has released Consumer Price Indices (CPI) and rates of inflation for the month of May 2012. KNBS generates the numbers using data collected during the second and third weeks of every month under review to get the CPI. The CPI increased by 0.26 % from…

National carrier Kenya Airways has announced the launch of flights to two new destinations – Kilimanjaro in Northern Tanzania and Eldoret in Kenya’s Rift Valley – beginning July. The airline will, from July 2, fly to Kilimanjaro International Airport and twice daily to Eldoret starting July 4. The launch of the…

The long debated mobile termination rate has been set at Shs. 1.60 by the Communications Commission of Kenya. The regulator had announced earlier that it planned to lower mobile termination rates (MTR) in July from the current Sh2.21  to  Sh1.44 a minute.  MTR is the amount of money an operator pays…

The notorious Nairobi traffic jams could soon be a thing of the past as developments in the railway system takes shape. Yesterday, Kenya Railway Corporation opened the new connection line to the newly refurbished Syokimau sub station. The new line, the first one built by Kenya since…

The Parliament today set to out discuss  the latest Cellular Mobile Quality of Service Performance Assessment Report for all the mobile phone operators in Kenya. The report prepared by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) points out  quality of service compliance by mobile phone operators. CCK requires that of…

Paysure Limited has today partnered with Kenswitch and Chase bank to offer an online payments platform, to tap into the growing ecommerce market in the region. Kenswitch member-bank cardholders can now make purchases on the internet using their debit or prepaid cards. One…

Nakumatt Holdings Limited has petitioned the government to consider formulating a retail sector development policy in the country.  Basing on the the recently released National Economic Survey 2012 results, Nakumatt Holdings Regional Strategy and Operations Director Mr. Thiagarajan Ramamurthy, has implored the government to consider hosting a consultative forum with the…