Simply put, your variable costs may include your electricity bills, car maintenance costs, medical expenses, food expenses, just to mention a few. How do you budget for them? These bills may or may not come every month plus there costs fluctuate on a regular basis. How do you…
Safaricom recently unveiled a product dubbed: Smart Choice for a Smart Lifestyle that enables those who yearn to own a smart phone or tablet but can’t afford the price an opportunity to buy and pay for a device of their’s dreams in 12 monthly installments. In addition to…
You can now send, receive and withdraw money using Airtel Money from any one of 465 Posta outlets across Kenya. This comes after Airtel Kenya and Posta Kenya signed a service agreement on Tuesday. Availing Airtel Money services at Posta outlets across…
Yu Mobile will this morning, 12 September 2012, launch “yuCover” a free life and disability insurance cover for yuMobile pre-pay subscribers. As reported in the Business Daily, Yu Mobile subscribers who spend KES 100 will qualify for a cover of KES 10,000, those spending KES 250…
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000, if you said one day 3 in every 4 Kenyans would own a mobile phone you'd probably be mocked all the way to mars. Yet they do. So what exactly was the price of phones then and now?
Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) Nairobi in conjunction with Akiba Uhaki Foundation recently did a study on consumer protection in Kenya. They were trying to find out exactly what hits the Kenyan consumer hardest. Here's what they found out.
Get up to 50 percent bonus data when you buy 200MB, 500MB, 1.5GB and 3GB data bundles from Safaricom. The bonus data is valid for browsing between 10pm and 10am and offer is valid till 7th October 2012. Safaricom’s terms…
Safaricom Limited last week introduced another alternative when it comes to buying Safricom internet bundles, buying using M-Pesa. It’s quite a simple procedure: Dial *544# Select buy bundles Choose payment option as M-Pesa You will then choose if you want to buy the bundles for the…
Manage Your Budget from Your Phone Yesterday we introduced you to envelope budgeting, a simple budgeting technic that entails dividing your expenses into categories and assigning each category an envelope that will be topped up with a particular amount of money. You then limit your expenditure;…