Safaricom adds 22,000 lines to fixed internet service

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Workers lay fibre-optic cable in Nyeri town on August 18, 2020. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Safaricom #ticker:SCOM added 22,008 new connections to its fixed internet service in the three months to September, driven by the demand for internet services as people worked from home in the wake of the Covid-19 disruptions.

Communications Authority (CA) data for the period shows that the telco had 229,406 homes and offices under its fixed internet connections in the period as it increased its share of the market to 35.6 percent.

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