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Safaricom turns to the internet as profits drop

Safaricom wants to be the biggest internet provider in the country to diversify from its slowing voice, message and mobile money business, by targeting one million connections of homes and business and backing the government project to link schools and hospitals to fiber infrastructure. The telco currently has 250,000 homes linked to their fiber network, 205 fifth generation (5G) sites in 23 counties and has now placed a bid in the governments procurement of laying over 100,000 kilometers of fibre optic cables across Kenya and establishment of digital village smart hubs and studios in each of the country’s 1450 wards. The telco boss Peter Ndegwa…

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