Here’s a summary from the Communications Authority of Kenya on sector performance and trends on the key segments of mobile telephony and electronic transactions for the financial year 2016/2017 (July – September):
Mobile Telephone Subscriptions: 38.5M subscribers, down from 39.7M. A decline of 3.0% from the last quarter. This was as a result of revision of mobile subscription data by Telkom Kenya.
New Subscriptions: Dropped 1.1M, during the quarter under review, compared to an increase of 1.4M subscriptions recorded during the previous quarter.
Mobile Money Transfer Subscriptions: 31.0M subscriptions, up from 26.3M. A 17.9% growth from the last quarter.
Mobile Money Agents: 169,698, up from 158,727. A 6.91% growth during the quarter.
MNO MARKET SHARE
Airtel: 17.5% – up from 16.6% reported in the previous quarter.
Safaricom: 69.0% – up from 65.2% reported from the previous quarter.
Telkom Kenya (Orange): 7.6% – down from 13.2% reported from the previous quarter.
Finserve Africa Limited (Equitel): 5.9% – up from 5.1% reported from the previous quarter.
Sema Mobile: Below 0.0% market share acquisition – new MVNO entrant during the financial year 2015/2016.
Mobile Money Transfer by MNO
Kenya is one of the most dynamic markets for mobile money, and that continues to show here.