By the time a Kenyan streams a football match on a smartphone, joins a video meeting, uploads content to TikTok or pays through a mobile app, there is a good chance part of that experience is now running on a fifth-generation (5G) mobile network.
Fresh data from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) shows subscriptions on the super-fast 5G network rose to 1.9 million as of March 2026, up from 1.7 million three months earlier.
