Safaricom withdraws decision to terminate post-pay tariff
In Summary
Rather than cancel the tariffs, Safaricom says it will either increase the cost of each bundle or decrease its size at the current rates to maintain its customers while ensuring profitability.
The telecoms firm last year announced that the tariff would be shelved as it was loss-making.
The Karibu post-paid tariff currently has two price plans; customers pay either Sh1,000 or Sh2,500 per month for a mix of talk time, text messages and data bundles.
Safaricom has hinted that it will only revise terms of use for its Karibu post-paid tariff, offering reprieve to more than 100,000 subscribers who were braced for termination of the service. Reports Mugambi Mutegi of nationmedia.com
The telecoms firm last year stopped taking applications from new subscribers and annou