Safaricom Launches New Roaming Service
2005-04-30 11:46:30 | Viewed 4320 times
Mobile telephone service provider Safaricom has launched a new roaming service. The service will allow subscribers to make calls to Uganda and Tanzania at the cost of a local call - Sh28.50 per minute.
Safaricom has signed an agreement with Uganda Telecom Limited and Vodacom Tanzania for the service.
During the launch, Safaricom's chief executive, Mr Michael Joseph, said alongside the roaming service, customers would enjoy other benefits including airtime transfer services.
In three months, the company will introduce multi-media messaging that will enable subscribers to send picture messages to mobile phones and computers.
Kenya will be the third African country after South Africa and Egypt to have the service.
The company will instal 40 new sites and upgrade about 80 in Nairobi to improve its service around Nairobi.
Mr Joseph said that Safaricom customers having problems with making calls in the city centre would soon be a thing of the past.
The company, he said, would instal about 260 new sites outside the city over the next year.
"Our growth is expected to result from areas which we are not currently present because experience has shown that we get positive response anytime we move to a new area".
He called on the government to grant his company a license to operate international gateway links to enable it offer cheap services to its international callers
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