12 Facts About Safaricom

Safaricom PLC is a listed Kenyan mobile network operator headquartered at Safaricom House in Nairobi, Kenya.

Safaricom offers mobile telephony, mobile money transfer, consumer electronics, ecommerce, cloud computing, data, music streaming, and fibre optic services.

Safaricom was formed in 1997 as a fully owned subsidiary of Telkom Kenya.

Safaricom was ranked as Africa's Best Employer, 67th in the World by the Forbes Global 200 list of World's Best Employers.

In November 2012, Safaricom partnered NCBA Bank and came up with a revolutionary banking product, M-Shwari, which allows M-Pesa customers to save and borrow money through mobile phone while earning interest on money saved tapping into an underdeveloped financial services market.

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Safaricom transformed the telecom from a subscriber base of less than 20,000 to over 16.

Safaricom later launched LTE-A service in Nairobi and Mombasa on band 20 and band 3 in December 2014 and has expanded to other cities.

In March 2021, Safaricom became the second network operator in Africa after Vodacom to launch a live 5G network, initially available in Nairobi, Kisumu, Kakamega and Kisii.

Safaricom launched the Kipokezi service in May 2000 that enabled its subscribers to send and receive email and online chat through standard mobile phones.

In Partnership with Google, Safaricom introduced Lipa Mdogo Mdogo, a product targeting individuals with 2G phones by upgrading them to 4 G-enabled devices while paying daily installments of Ksh.

Safaricom has announced that it intends to roll out M-PESA to other countries.

On November 19,2014, Safaricom launched a companion android app Safaricom M-Ledger for its M-PESA users.