Overview

Kenya has four mobile phone operators, and 3 landline providers and a number of ISPs. All of the mobile phone operators also have data services available with different pricing for businesses and individuals. Overview

Telecoms

Mobile

Safaricom

http:www.safaricom.com | safaricom
Bands: GSM 900/1800
Data: 3G/Edge/GPRS
Prefix: 072x and 071X
X at the moment goes from 0 - 9
Estimated Live Subscribers: 14.515 Million as at September 2009
Costs:
- Voice (in network) 8/7 kes prepaid/postpaid
  - Voice (in network) 0.8-8.0 Kes based on BTS/Network utility prepaid
  - Voice (in network) 0.8-8.0 Kes based on time of the day(peak/off peak) postpaid
- Voice (out of network) 15/14 kes prepaid/postpaid
- SMS (in network) 3.5 kes prepaid
- SMS (out of network) 5.0 kes prepaid
- SMS (international) 10.0 kes prepaid
- Blackberry (unlimited data and email) 2000 kes prepaid

Safaricom Mobile Data Info:

Safaricom Mobile Data (click for costs and setup)

Zain

zain
GSM 900
Data: Edge/GPRS
Prefix: 073x
X at the moment goes from 3 - 8
Estimated Live Subscribers: 2.418 million as at September 2009
Costs:
- Voice (in network) ?3 kes postpaid/prepaid
- Voice (out of network) ?3 kes both prepaid/postpaid
- Data 7 kes per mb (for out of bundle)
  1. Prepaid Bundle data charges range from 4 KESper 1 MB to 1.75 KES per 1MB depending on bundle loaded.
- SMS (in network) 1.0 kes prepaid
- SMS (out of network) 3.0 kes prepaid
- SMS (international) 10.0 kes prepaid

Zain Mobile Data Info:

Zain Mobile Data (click for costs and setup)

Orange/Telkom Kenya

orange
GSM 900/1800
Data: Edge/GPRS/CDMA2000/EVDO
Prefix: 077x
X at the moment goes from 0 -? (Not sure)
Estimated Live Subscribers: 0.772 Million as at September 2009
Costs:
- Voice (in network) 4 kes per minute all day/night (Orange Mobile, Orange Fixed Plus, Telkom Fixed)
- Voice (out of network - other nat'l and mobile networks) 8 kes per minute all day/night
- SMS (in & out of network) 3.50 kes per message all day/night
- Peak 7 am -7 pm, offpeak 7pm - 7 am
- SMS (in network) 3.5 kes prepaid
- SMS (out of network) 3.5 kes prepaid
- SMS (international) 10.0 kes prepaid

Orange Kenya Mobile Data Info:

Orange Mobile Data (click for costs and setup)

Essar Telecom (Yu)

yu
GSM 900/1800
Data: Edge/GPRS
Prefix: 075x
X at the moment goes from 0 -? (Not sure)
Estimated Live Subscribers: 0.5 Million as at end of September 2009
Costs:
- Voice (in network) 6 kes (Ongea Tariff), 7.50 (Amua tariff)
- Voice (out of network) 6 kes (Ongea Tariff), 7.50 (Amua tariff)
- Data 3 kes per mb
- SMS (in network) 1.0 kes prepaid (Ongea Tariff), 0.0 kes (Amua Tariff)
- SMS (out of network) 3.5 kes prepaid (Ongea, Amua Tariff)
- SMS (international) 10.0 kes prepaid (Ongea, Amua Tariff)

Landline

Telkom Kenya/Orange

 [[http://www.telkom.co.ke|Telkom Kenya]]
 Network: CDMA and Copper Fixed Lines
 Subscribers: Estimated arnd 280,000 (fixed lines)
 Prefix: Area codes vary with region.e.g. Nairobi - 020, Mombasa - 041 etc
 Data Services: ADSL, Kenswitch (mostly for businesses and companies)

Same as Orange Mobile