Safaricom is one of the leading integrated communications companies in Africa with over 17 million subscribers. The company reported Sh18.36 billion ($216 million) pretax profit for the financial year ending March 31st 2011. Safaricom provides a comprehensive range of services under one roof: mobile and fixed voice and data services on a variety of platforms.<\/p>\n
Safaricom has made heavy investments in broadband capacity giving us a foothold in undersea cable, satellite, metro and trunk cable connectivity.<\/p>\n
It also has the widest 3G network and the most expansive WIMAX presence in Kenya. The result of this has been that over 92% of Kenyans who use the Internet regularly, access the Internet through the Safaricom network\/Infrastructure. We are currently testing the Long Term Evolution (LTE) 4G technology.<\/p>\n
Safaricom also pioneered commercial mobile money transfer globally through M-PESA, the most successful such service anywhere in the world. And thanks to the early April 2011 partnership with Western Union, M-PESA\u2019s 14.2 million subscribers can now receive international money transfers from 45 countries and territories worldwide, making the partnership the largest deal of its kind in the world. M-PESA customers have over 28,000 points of contact to transact from.<\/p>\n
Safaricom is listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and trades on the telecommunications and technology segment.<\/p>\n
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