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Safaricom Group's net income for the six months to 30 September 2026 rose 35.9% to KSh 58.2 billion, with M-Pesa revenue at KSh 100.1 billion, The Star reported on 6 November 2026.
A Kenyan line can be recycled only after three months with no calls, SMS, data or top-ups and three more months of notices, and using it once stops the process, under Communications Authority rules in force since 19 September 2026. M-Pesa is separate: Safaricom's terms provide for an account to be suspended once its SIM has been inactive for 90 days, TechTrendsKE reported.
KRA says everyone in business must issue eTIMS e-invoices, VAT-registered or not; a KRA official told a parliamentary committee on 27 October that Safaricom wants to issue them for M-Pesa merchants, and the talks are at a preliminary stage, Business Daily reported on 28 October.
Kenya's Nairobi Securities Exchange ended September with listed companies worth KSh 4.12 trillion, while equity turnover fell to KSh 72.72 billion from KSh 263.87 billion in Q2, the Capital Markets Authority's bulletin shows; Business Daily estimates brokers earned up to KSh 14 billion in commissions through September.
KCB said on 25 October that KCB M-Pesa maintenance due to end at 6am that day was still underway and gave no time for the service to return, The Kenya Times reported on 25 October.
Safaricom on 22 October launched Fuliza Ya Pochi, an overdraft for Pochi La Biashara merchants in Kenya who have used the wallet for more than six months; it did not publish the limits or borrowing charges.
Kenyan telcos would send lists of deactivated and recycled numbers to a central database every quarter, which banks and other third parties could check before sending messages, under draft Communications Authority rules, Business Daily reported on 9 October 2026.
On 6 October 2026, the Communications Authority of Kenya told MPs that telcos must try to contact subscribers for three months, and publish a public notice, before recycling inactive numbers, Capital FM and The Star reported.
On 30 June 2026, Starlink had 27,616 fixed internet subscriptions in Kenya, 1.0 per cent of the market, according to the Communications Authority of Kenya's fourth-quarter statistics report for the 2025/26 financial year.
On 6 October 2026, Safaricom and Gulfcap Investment Bank opened the Ziidi Shari'ah money market fund to M-Pesa customers from KSh 100, Capital FM reported.
On 6 October 2026, Safaricom's M-PESA Jumbe receipt, which shows no balance, full name or phone number, is sent only where the shop has switched it on, Tech-ish and Techweez reported.
Parliament's Public Petitions Committee has taken up a petition by Thomson Kerongo and Asiago Stephen, who say subscribers are not always given adequate notice before Safaricom deactivates inactive SIM cards and reassigns the numbers, Capital FM reported on 3 October.
