Pre-paid subscriptions grew by 6.03 per cent to record 27.84 million subscriptions
Post-paid subscriptions grew by 1.31 per cent to record 236,436 subscriptions
Mobile penetration was recorded as 71.3 per cent
Total local mobile traffic declined to 6.70 billion minutes from 7.09 billion minutes
Minutes of Use (MoU) per subscriber per month declined to 79.9
89.10 per cent of the population had access to mobile services compared to 84.5 per cent recorded in the same period of the previous year
The percentage land mass covered by mobile services was increased to 34.45 per cent from 34.00 per cent
SMS / MMS
SMS per subscriber per month declined by 38.52 per cent from 17.42 SMS during the previous period to 10.71 SMS
A total of 902 million messages were sent down from 1.38 billion during the previous period, posting a decline of 34.85 per cent.
The average number of SMS sent by each subscriber per month was recorded as 10.71 down from 17.42
1,723,544 multimedia messages during the period, which was 1.98 per cent more
Internet
The estimated number of Internet users rose by 21.55 per cent from 14.30 million users in the previous period to 17.38 million
36.3 per cent of the population had access to Internet up from 31.8 per cent
Internet service continued to rise steadily during the quarter to stand at 6,152,687 Internet subscriptions
Broadband subscriptions increased to 131,829 from 126,589
No of Mobile data/Internet subscriptions increased to 6.07 million subscriptions compared to 5.37 million subscriptions
Satellite subscriptions declined from 774 subscriptions in the previous period to 669
In terms of other fixed/terrestrial wireless data/internet subscriptions, Kenya Data Networks led the pack with a market share of 33.48 percent followed by Wananchi Telecom which had a market share 23.55 per cent
Mobile Money Transfer
An increase of 3.08 per cent subscriptions in mobile money transfer was recorded from 18.4 million in the previous period to 18.9 million
The number of mobile money transfer subscriptions represents 70.35 per cent of the total mobile subscriptions.
The number of mobile money agents grew by 6.84 per cent during the period, from 44,922 during the previous period to 47,997
The total deposits made during the period under review were recorded as KSh176 billion, representing an average of KSh58 billion deposits made per month
