Owning a smart phone comes with one major additional expense, buying mobile internet bundles. Safaricom has a couple of data plans suitable for mobile users. The daily mobile internet bundles, with a 24 hours validity period and the 7 days prepaid data plan. Based on how you surf the net using your phone, one of these data plans will suit your lifestyle more.

The daily mobile internet bundle has a variety of data volumes. You have an option of 5MB, 10MB and 25MB which cost KES 5, KES 8 and KES 20 respectively plus have a validity period of 24 hours. Once you subscribe to the service, your subscription will automatically be renewed every day. This internet plan is mainly ideal for those who mostly depend on their phone’s to surf the net on a daily basis.

The main issue with the daily internet bundles plan is that if you do not finish the bundles within 24 hours you will automatically loose the remaining data. You might subscribe to the 5MB, 10MB or 20 MD daily plan but be unable to use up all the data.

For those who rarely use their smart phone to access the internet but once in a while go on line using there phone, Safaricom has a special internet data plan for them. There is the 7 days prepaid data plan that comes with an option of 4MB, 8MB and 16MB internet bundles at a cost of KES 5, KES 10 and KES 20 respectively with a 7 days validity period. These bundles are more costly than the daily mobile data plan bundles, but there validity period is 7 days more.

Unlike the daily internet bundles whose subscription is renewed every day, the above data plan allows you to renew your subscription when need arises and the data plan you choose is valid for 7 days. This translates in paying for what you use. The 7 days data plan lets you use the bundles until you finish them and in case you finished the data before 7 days elapse, you have an option of buying more bundles.

You can also buy the 7 days bundles directly from a KES 5, KES 10 and KES 20 Safaricom scratch card. Making your data bundle purchase fast and easy. For light mobile internet users, the prepaid 7 days data bundles plan is more economical than the daily data plan.

Back to the daily mobile data plan, you can briefly subscribe to the daily internet data plan, buy you preferred bundles and then un-subscribe. The bundles you purchased will be valid for 24 hours and you will have bought them as a lower price as compared to the prepaid 7 days data plan.

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