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Vodacom buys $2.1bn stake in Safaricom, gains majority control

by Harry Baldock | Dec 4, 2025

The shares, purchased from the Kenyan government and Vodacom’s parent company Vodafone, give it a 55% stake in the business

Safaricom rebuffs govt calls to spin off mobile money platform M-Pesa

by Harry Baldock | Nov 13, 2025

“We do not want to list the financial services companies separately because we believe they are closely related to the value proposition we offer to our clients”

Kenya launches early market talks for Horn of Africa fibre optic corridor

by Total Telecom Staff | Jul 11, 2025

The government has begun early market engagement for a high-capacity fibre optic cable along the Isiolo–Mandera corridor, part of the World Bank-backed HoAGDP, to boost cross-border digital connectivity and support regional socio-economic development with Ethiopia and Somalia by 2028.

Safaricom: Kenya’s new smartphone plant could reduce prices by 30%

by Harry Baldock | Jan 29, 2024

A new smartphone manufacturing facility in Kenya is already making waves, with Safaricom’s CEO Peter Ndegwa suggesting locally built 4G smartphones could be up to 30% cheaper than their imported counterparts.

Shortest route connecting East to West Africa launched

by Total Telecom Staff | May 31, 2023

Liquid Dataport, a business of Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid) (https://www.Liquid.Tech), a pan-African technology group, has launched its newest fibre route connecting Mombasa, Kenya, to Muanda on the west coast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).