US billionaire Elon Musk’s satellite internet firm Starlink has more than doubled its market share in Kenya in just three months, controlling a 1.1 percent stake as at the end of September 2024 – up from 0.5 percent at the end of June the same year.
Fresh disclosures from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) indicate that the subscriber base growth rate for the multinational has dramatically intensified, adding 8,723 new users in the period under review, a pace that dwarfs the 8,063 subscribers gained in the full year to June.