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Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore makes his keynote address during 2015-2016 Financial year results at their head office Nairobi 05/11/15 PHOTO BY MOSES OMUSULA
M-Pesa users in Kenya can now send money to Uganda’s MTN mobile money users in a move likely to stamp Safaricom’s authority in mobile money transfer services in the region.
This follows a partnership deal between Safaricom and MTN, the leading mobile operator in Uganda. It becomes the third deal M-Pesa is signing in the region following similar partnerships with Vodacom of Tanzania and MTN of Rwanda earlier in the year.
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