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M-Pesa users to retrieve numbers in a new move

By Kamau Macharia

Users of Safaricom’s money transfer service M-Pesa will in the coming weeks swap their SIM cards and take up new ones that will enable them to retrieve the number of the person they are sending money to directly from the phone book.

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