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Safaricom bets future on mobile payments Mpesa

Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest mobile network provider, has predicted that within three years its pioneering digital payments business Mpesa will generate more revenue than all other parts of the business combined.

Driven by a 19 per cent increase in revenues at Mpesa, the company reported annual service revenue of Ks240.3bn ($2.4bn) for the financial year to the end of March, an increase of 7 per cent. The mobile payments platform, which is used by two out of every five Kenyans to send money and pay for goods and services, generated almost a third of total revenues and will surpass 50 per cent in three years, said Mr Collymore.

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