Quote:1.4.2 Voice Traffic by Operator
There was substantial change in traffic patterns for each of the operators particularly for Safaricom, Orange and Airtel Networks Limited. Safaricom’s traffic increased to 6.2 billion minutes up from 6.0 billion minutes recorded during the last quarter. Similarly, the share in voice traffic shifted to 84.0 percent from 75.6 percent registered during the last quarter. Notably, the off-net traffic shot from 305 million during the last quarter to 331 million during the quarter under review marking growth of 8.5 percent.
On the contrary, Airtel’s traffic declined substantially to 722 million minutes corresponding to
9.8 percent share down from 1.0 billion minutes recorded during the previous quarter. Its market
share in voice traffic declined to 9.8 percent down from 13.4 per cent reported during the
previous period.
Telkom Kenya Limited (Orange) gained in total mobile voice traffic to post 458 million minutes during the quarter up from 356 million minutes posted during the previous quarter. The market share for Telkom (Orange) has demonstrated improvement over the last three quarters with the quarter under review recording 6.2 percent market share from 4.4 percent recorded during the last quarter.
During the period under review Finserve, a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) licensed in 2014 recorded on-net traffic of 1.6 million minutes during the quarter.
Quote:1.2 Mobile Money Transfer
During the quarter under review, the number of mobile money transfer subscriptions stood at 26.0 million down from 27.4 million recorded during the last quarter, representing a decline of 5.3 percent. This could be attributed to the exit from the market by Essar Telecom Limited (yu) which held 2.1 million mobile money transfer subscriptions representing 7.8 percent market share by end of the previous quarter.
Finserve, a Mobile Virtual Network Operator licensed in 2014 joined the market and recorded 394,606 subscriptions during the quarter under review.
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