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Impressive 67 per cent of Mobile Phones Sold in Kenya are Smartphones 100,000 Smartphones are sold each month in Kenya, making it a leading market for Smartphones in Sub-Saharan Africa. This can be attributed to the infrastructure setup, cheap internet costs and low cost of entry level Smartphones, AllAfrica reports. Prices for these kinds of phones in the region have been known to go as low as $50, this of course reflects on the mobile carrier revenues who see increased growth of data consumption in the country. Kenya has seen an impressive 67 per cent Smartphone takeover in the mobile phone market, compared to the total mobile phone sales in the market. This data comes from Safaricom, the largest mobile carrier in Kenya which is both the largest devices retail and has over an 85 per cent market-share. ....
Safaricom’s Internal Wrangles Over Tenders Threaten To Knock Out The ‘Outsider’ CEO Peter Ndegwa The lies and shiny outside of East Africa’s biggest Telco, Safaricom Plc, that has been over the years propped up by Public Relations has begun to wane. An ugly infighting that has escalated pitting board Chairman Michael Joseph (former/founding CEO) and current CEO Peter Ndegwa’s camp seems likely as the straw that will break the camel’s back. They say that corruption in the private sector is shocking as government’s. It was clear that Michael Joseph, who referred Bob Collymore (late CEO) as ‘a white man in an African body’ didn’t want the firm to be headed by another African. ....