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  The new M-Pesa app is now live and if for one reason or another you haven’t downloaded it already then you need to head over to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store right now and experience the future of money. The M-Pesa app was officially launched on Wednesday 23rd 2021 after months of testing. The launch marked a new milestone in Mpesa's as well as Safaricom’s journey so much so that it causes a major M-Pesa outage for some time. The issue was latter resolved and M-Pesa users got a chance  to experience this new revolutionary mobile money game changer. Right from the design, the look and functionality of this app, there’s no hiding the fact that Safaricom is now on a Global stage and is no longer a Kenya or Africa only affair. There are a number of revolutionary features in this app including the ability to carry out all transactions that we have gotten used with the traditional M-Pesa STK menu like buying airtime or sending money to other new innovative features like...

Skrill is gaining popularity among Kenyans making it one of the most preferred international money transfer service, greatly loved by bloggers, freelancers and gamblers a like. One advantage that Skrill has over PayPal is that Skrill accepts money transactions with various international gambling and brokers like Olymp Trade. If you are a Kenyan working online and for one reason or another you can't use PayPal, then Skrill is there for you, and to make it much easier, Skrill allows you to transfer money directly to your Mpesa account or to any registered Mpesa User. However, it's good to note that the partnership between Skrill and Mpesa is not as good as that of PayPal and M-pesa, Since for PayPal you can either withdraw or send from Mpesa, but for Skrill you can only withdraw but not send directly from Mpesa. What is Skrill? Skrill is an international money transfer and payment service registered in the UK as a money service business. Skrill allows you transfer and make intern...

Months after Airtel Kenya and Safaricom announced their Mpesa-Airtel Money transfer interoperability, Telkom T-kas finally joined in, and now you can transfer money between Mpesa and T-Kash easily and conveniently. Initially, sending money from one network to another was a cumbersome and costly process. By then, when one send money across networks, the recipient was given a voucher code through SMS, and had to withdraw the money before expiry of seven days. Customers of the three telcos can now send and receive money across any of the three networks easily and seamlessly, and the money will be toped up directly on the recipient's wallet, and therefore no need to withdraw the money directly. This post will take you through the steps on how to send money between Mpesa, T-kash and Airtel Money.  How to send money from Mpesa to T-Kash or Airtel money. Dial *234# on your Safaricom line. Select option 1 'Mpesa products'. Select option 98 'more'. Then option 8 'Mpesa ...

Safaricom bonga is one of safaricom's multiple consumer reward programs better known as loyalty programs aimed at rewarding Safaricom customers for staying loyal to their brand through purchase of  various services and products. What is Safaricom bonga This is a loyalty program that rewards Safaricom subscribers for staying loyal to the brand by purchasing various products and services. It is more of an incentive whereby safaricom subscribers earn points when they purchase various services like calls data or SMS. Later the points can be redeemed for a range of rewards as explained below. For every Ksh.10 spend, you earn one bonga point which you can accumulate to any amount you want and can redeem at any one given time. Other telco providers in the country also have a similar reward program including Telkom ziada and Airtel Zawadi, but Bonga points is the most successful of the three. Bonga points brief history . First introduced in the year 2007 , Safaricom bonga program has see...

Safaricom Tunukiwa daily  has now become part and parcel of Kenyan life and many Safaricom customers have embraced it due to it's  high affordability as compared to normal rates be it on data, SMS or call minutes. For instance, instead of buying 150 Mbs at ksh.50 daily you can get Tunukiwa 180 Mb daily at the same price. What are Tunukiwa Bundles? Tunukiwa is a Swahili term for 'rewarded'. Safaricom Tunukiwa, therefore, is one of the many Safaricom' s loyalty programs aimed at rewarding their customers for staying loyal and using Safaricom products and services. Others are : Safaricom bonga.  Allows you to earn bonga points when you buy various Safaricom products and services. You can later on redeem the points for various goods and services including Bonga Points Phones . Storo bonus. where you get free airtime to be used for SMS and calls once you reach your daily storo target. Tunukiwa was introduced in April 2017, immediately after Airtel Kenya launched a product k...

After a success of Airtel's daily 1 GB at ksh.99 and the introduction of Telkom Kenya's 1 GB + 1 GB 4G daily bundle for the same price, Safaricom Kenya had no option but to Join the game ,with it's 1 Gb Giga bundle at ksh.99 daily , valid for 24 hours. What could be the possible reason? According to statistical data from the Communications Authority Of Kenya published April 2018, Safaricom registered a drop of 2.8% in it's market dominance, from 71.9% to 69.1%, while Airtel Kenya improved from 14.9%to 17.2% and Telkom Kenya recorded a 0.6% improvement from 8.4 to 9.0%. These changes, to me, were greatly contributed by the need for cheaper products, especially data, something Airtel Kenya and Telkom  have been doing good so far. Kenyans are now consuming a lot of internet products and services, from social media, education,entertainment online shopping and banking including online media streaming and downloads. This made data the new competition field, which each company...