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Safaricom’s Sh20 smartphone scheme launched

Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa

Safaricom on Tuesday launched a programme in partnership with Google that allows its customers to pay for 4G-enabled phones in instalments, as it seeks to increase smart phone usage on its network.

The company said in April it would partner with Google to offer one million affordable smart phones, with customers paying as little as Sh20 a day over a nine-month period, with the ultimate aim of switching about 4 million 2G and 3G phones to 4G.

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