The service has lifted the number of 4G devices registered on Safaricom’s network.
At the end of March last year, the service had 900,000 cumulative customers.
Safaricom’s smartphone device financing plan dubbed Lipa mdogo mdogo has hit 1.2 million sales , mirroring big demand for internet connectivity among the targeted low-income customer groups.
The service modelled on the buy-now-pay-later model is a financing partnership between the telco; Meta, Google, and M-Kopa Solar which allows consumers to own smartphone devices with affordable instalments of as low as Sh20 daily.
