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Tech firms race to reach next one billion users

Mr. Caesar Sengupta, General Manager of Payments and Vice President at Google who is leading the company’s Next Billion Users (NBU) initiative. [File, Standard]

A report released by the World Bank earlier this year revealed that Kenyan households spend, on average, 20 per cent more on mobile phone services than on cooking fuel and electricity each month.

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