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Equity’s ThinSIM will benefit the market

Many twists and turns have accompanied the revolution witnessed in Kenya’s mobile telecommunications business in the past decade. Today, up to a third of the revenue in the industry stems from the mobile money transfer platform.

It is clear that the old business model in mobile telephony where profits were churned through voice is evaporating as people embrace technological platforms of messaging like Whatsapp and in the process, upping data usage.

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