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M-Pesa profile in Safaricom rises as voice revenue stutters

By Patrick Alushula and Macharia Kamau | 4yrs ago

 

Safaricom’s customers transacted Sh29.5 trillion shillings through M-Pesa in the year to March 2022, showing how key the mobile money platform has become to Kenya's economy. 

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