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Kenyan active mobile money subscriptions rise 2% to 33 mln in Q2

Friday 2 April 2021 | 09:53 CET | News
The number of active registered mobile money subscriptions in the second quarter to 31 December 2020 rose by 2.1 percent to 32.46 million from the first, and the number of active mobile money agents was up 7.9 percent to 264,390, according to a report by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA).

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Categories: Mobile & Wireless
Companies: Communications Authority of Kenya
Countries: Kenya
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