THE STANDARD By
Fredrick Obura |
December 31st 2020 at 12:54:07 GMT +0300
Communications Authority of Kenya Headquarters (PHOTO: File)
NAIROBI, KENYA: Airtel and Telkom Kenya added more subscribers to their networks between July and September to post 27.2 and 6.3 percent market shares, respectively.
A quarterly report by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) on the other hand shows Safaricom market share in mobile subscriptions dropping by 0.5 percentage points to stand at 63.7 per cent during the quarter under review.
Similarly, Equitel lost by 0.2 percentage points to record a market share of 2.8 per cent.
According to the report, Safaricom remains the market leader in mobile data subscription at 67.5 per cent even after losing 1.2 percentage points during the period under review. Airtel and Telkom control 26.8 and 5.4 market share in data after gaining 0.8 and 0.4 percentage points respectively.