Safaricom
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Safaricom PLC is a listed Kenyan mobile network operator headquartered at Safaricom House in Nairobi, Kenya. It is the largest telecommunications provider in Kenya, and one of the most profitable companies in the East and Central Africa region. The company offers mobile telephony, mobile money transfer, consumer electronics, ecommerce, cloud computing, data, music streaming, and fibre optic services. It is most renowned as the home of M-PESA, a mobile banking SMS-based service. In 2025, Kagirison Research accused Safaricom managers and executives of involvement in crimes, including internation
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Vinony's link graph records 216 inbound references to Safaricom, and connects out to e-commerce, Vodafone and Nairobi Stock Exchange.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics 1997 establishments in Kenya, Companies based in Nairobi and Companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Country
- Kenya
- Headquarters
- Nairobi
- Owned by
- Vodacom
- Employees
- 3000
- Legal form
- joint-stock company
- Official website
- www.safaricom.co.ke
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- inception
- 1997-00-00
- number of subscribers
- 12000000
- social media followers
- 146000
- operating area
- Kenya
- location information URL
- www.safaricom.co.ke/customer-service
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- History
- Flashback service (Please Call Me)
- Kipokezi service
- Lipa Mdogo Mdogo
- M-PESA
- History
- How it works
- M-Pesa's usage and success in Kenya
- Safaricom and Visa partnership
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- India
- Shareholding
- Controversies
- Tracking and extra-judicial killings of Safaricom subscribers
- Sim-card fraud
- See also
- References
* [Personal](https://www.safaricom.co.ke/personal)
* [Business](https://www.business.safaricom.co.ke/)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Safaricom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations