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The multi-billion shilling betting industry was thrown into a limbo last evening after mobile operators closed down mobile money and SMS short-codes run by the firms.
Safaricom’s suspension of M-Pesa pay bill numbers and SMS short codes for some 27 betting firms among them SportPesa and Betin sparked anxiety in the Sh200 billion industry which has been in a push and pull with the State.
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