Safaricom eyes 250 sites for 5G by end of year

Safaricom #ticker:SCOM wants to raise fifth-generation (5G) sites by up to 17 times by the end of the year, making the superfast services available to more subscribers in urban centres.

The leading telco which in March launched the 5G technology with 15 sites says it wants to raise this to up 250 sites and take the super-fast internet to nine towns.