How reopening of schools hit telcos’ text messages cash

Newly published statistics show a fall in mobile short message service by 4.3 percent in the quarter to March 2024.

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Reopening of schools following the long December holiday dented telcos' revenue from text messages in the quarter to March, official data by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) shows.

The newly published statistics show a fall in mobile short message service by 4.3 percent in the quarter to March, a period when students had come from the long holidays.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.