Airtel gains 1.2m subscribers from Raila’s ‘resistance’ move

Residents of Kisumu at Airtel shop where they had gone to migrate following the decision by NASA coalition to boycott Safaricom services. [Photo by Collins Oduor/Standard]

Kenya’s second largest mobile service provider Airtel registered 1.2 million new subscribers in the second quarter of the current financial year, marking the biggest three-month rise in subscribers recorded by any telco in recent years.

According to the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), Airtel recorded a 20 per cent increase, pushing up the overall number of mobile subscribers to 42.8 million.