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Safaricom escapes potential Sh400m CA fine over network glitch

Communications Authority of Kenya Director-Genera Francis Wangusi.

Mobile service provider Safaricom can rest easy after being spared more than Sh400 million in fines over an outage that occurred on its core network earlier this year.

Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Thursday made an unusual about-turn on an earlier threat to penalise the telco, opting instead to ‘caution’ it.

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