Telecommunications giant; Safaricom has set plans in motion its sights on increasing its home fibre coverage to ensure its subscribers remain connected.
This decision is seen as the company’s response to better serve its customers who have largely been indoors as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown.
Safaricom’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO); Peter Ndegwa during the company’s virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) said, “We have a huge opportunity to enable our customers to work or study from home. We are planning to roll out a home fibre connection plan. Between March and June, we have been able to add 25,000 new connections to home fibre.”
The telecommunications giant currently offers its Home Fibre users four (4) packages aimed at fulfilling the education, entertainment and daily internet needs of said users.
The company has reportedly invested close to 6.5 billion Kenyan Shillings towards assisting its vast number of subscribers during the ongoing pandemic.
Mr. Peter Ndegwa na debut known that, “We have ensured that Kenya remains connected and cushioned during this pandemic by providing free M-PESA transfers for low denominations, doubling our bandwidth, supplying food to most vulnerable groups, supporting small businesses through the provision of an M-PESA business App and providing a payment plan that allows those with 2G handsets to acquire 4G smartphones through Lipa na M-PESA mdogo mdogo.”
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