Review of M-Shwari lock savings account

Safaricom, being the biggest telecommunication company in East and central Africa has changed the way business is conducted in these economies. The company came up with a revolutionary mobile money transfer system and named it M-PESA. This enabled Safaricom’s customers to send and receive money to any part of the country through the use of mobile phones. All one needed to have is his or her national identification card of an original passport for registration. Other than sending and/or receiving cash, M-PESA allows customers to pay utility bills, buy goods and services and transfer money from your bank account to your mobile phone and vice versa.

With over twenty-four million registered users who find it more convenient to use their mobile phones than going to the banks, M-PESA has now established itself a major player in the banking sector. Banks had to adjust to stay afloat in the market. Continue reading M-Shwari lock savings account review

Here is how to sambaza Safaricom Airtime

Sambaza is one of the most prominent services that Safaricom offers. It is a platform used to share airtime with both Pre-pay and Postpay customers. When using Sambaza airtime services, Kshs 5 is the least amount you can send whereas Kshs 10,000 is the maximum you can sambaza

There are different ways subscribers can use this service. You can Sambaza through SMS, USSD or directly from your phone.

1. SMS

Step one;

Go to the Message menu and create a new SMS message and enter the amount you want to sambaza then immediately after inputs the (#) subsequently enter the cell number you want to top up. For example, 50#0727780236.

Step two:

Confirm if this is the amount and the cell phone you want to Sambaza airtime to.

Step three;

Send this message to 140

Step four;

Wait for a confirmation SMS.

Step five.

Upon a successful Sambaza, you and the recipient of the Airtime will both receive an SMS confirming the successful top up. Continue reading How to sambaza safaricom airtime

Review of the Safaricom Big Box

Kenya is a member state of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) which is an intergovernmental public-private organization that works to improve telecommunication infrastructure in the developing world and also coordinates the use of radio spectrum.

The Kenyan government signed the ITU Geneva 2006 (GE06) Agreement in which it agreed to an analog switch-off date of June 2015.  The switch to digital transmission was meant to benefit every stakeholder including consumers as it provides much better quality services like the better picture and sound quality with less interference, more choice of content as digital signals use much less bandwidth and so much more channels can be viewed.

With this digital migration came the need to purchase set-top boxes that received and transmit digital content so there was an influx of set-top boxes in the Kenyan market. Most of them were free to air while a few offered pay-tv services to consumers. With such high demands came cheap set-top boxes that were not really of good quality. Continue reading Safaricom big box review