Kenya’s regulator says mobile penetration in the country has passed 77 percent, but voice traffic is declining.
In their latest statistics for the communications and postal sector to end June this year, CCK says the level of mobile telephony penetration registered an increase of 2.3 per cent to stand at 77.3 percent (30.5 million subscriptions), up from the previous quarter which recorded a penetration of 75.6 per cent (29.8 million subscriptions). 19.6 million people access the internet mainly through mobile phones, and SMS and instant messaging have contributed to the decline in voice traffic.
Total local mobile traffic declined by 1.1 per cent, recording a total of 7.1 billion minutes compared to 7.18 billion in the previous quarter. The overall mobile voice traffic per subscriber dropped from 81.1minutes recorded in the previous quarter to 78.4 minutes. Conversely, the total number of SMS stood at 4.3 billion up from 4.0 billion posted in the preceding quarter; averaging 47 SMS per subscriber, per month.
Mobile money transfer subscriptions increased from 23.2 million in the previous quarter to 24.8 million in the quarter under review, recording a 6.8 per cent growth, consistent with the positive subscriber growth patterns.
Comparing the Financial Years 2012/13 and 2011/12 the number of mobile money transfer subscriptions rose by 27.3 per cent overall. Similarly, the number of mobile money transfer agents grew significantly to record 88,466 agents during the quarter up from 74,216 registered during the previous quarter, representing a growth of 19.2 per cent.
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