Telecommunications company Safaricom #ticker:SCOM is looking to bite a bigger chunk of the multi-billion shilling music business through a new music streaming service, Songa.
The application launched on Monday evening has a catalogue of 2.5 million songs from 400,000 local and international artists. Songa is an evolution for Safaricom, which has already been a player in the music industry with its Skiza ring back tunes services through which it paid Sh1.4 billion to musicians last year.
