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Safaricom rolls out new phone numbers

Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa. [File, Standard] 

NAIROBI, KENYA: New mobile subscribers will get numbers with a different prefix after Safaricom rolled out new phone number prefixes beginning with 0112, 0113, 0114, and 0115.

The move is necessitated by increased demand for SIM cards, mobile data and machine-to-machine communication, and other emerging technologies that require telecommunication numbers.

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