Airtel outpaces Safaricom in growth of subscribers

Airtel Kenya Chief Executive Officer Ashish Malhotra.

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Airtel Kenya amassed 3.01 million SIM card subscribers during the first three months of this year to cross the 24 million mark for the first time ever, outpacing rival Safaricom which gathered 1.7 million customers during the period.

Latest industry data from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) shows that Airtel had 24.5 million active SIM cards in the market as at close of March, up from 21.5 million at the end of last December, translating to a 13.95 percent jump.

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