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group.jumia.com. Jumia is a marketplace, logistics service and payment service, operating throughout Africa. The logistics service enables the delivery of packages through local partners while the payment services facilitate the payments of online transactions. [1] It has partnered with more than 100,000 sellers and individuals.
Launched. 2013. Kaymu is an online marketplace founded in 2013, providing localized C2C and B2C products in Africa, [1] Europe and Asia. [2] The platform lets buyers and sellers meet to make deals on new and used fashion items, mobile phones, jewelry, and home appliances.
M-Kopa (M for mobile, kopa is Swahili for borrow, stylized as M-KOPA) [1] is an African connected asset financing platform that provides underbanked customers in Africa to essential products including smartphones, electric motorbikes & digital financial services. [2][3] M-Kopa was launched commercially in 2012 and is headquartered in Nairobi.
X-Tigi Mobile is a Hong Kong-based smartphone manufacturer that was founded in 2006, the company has research & development center and factory located in China. X-Tigi service network is available in most African countries (especially Kenya and Ghana) since it entered the African market in 2009. X-Tigi mobile phones were known for power-bank ...
Nairobi. Retrieved 15 December 2017. ^ Kamau, Macharia (6 December 2017). "Jamii Telecom becomes fourth mobile operator with launch of data focused network". The Standard (Kenya). Nairobi. Retrieved 4 July 2018. ^ Njanja, Annie (15 October 2018). "Airtel, Telkom eat into Safaricom market share".
Mobile operators. In Kenya there are four [ 1 ] mobile network operators (MNO): Safaricom, Airtel (formerly Kencell, Celtel, and Zain), Equitel (MVNO) and Telkom Kenya (Orange). [ 2 ] The Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) has assigned several Area Codes to each operator. All mobile Area Codes used the start with the digit 7.
Kenya: In 2018 the group signed a partnership with online retailer Jumia. [72] In 2018, the group invested in Wadi, the online delivery portal that operates Wadi Grocery in Saudi Arabia. [73] [74] This is part of a $30 million funding round that will help set up the delivery structure for all Carrefour stores within Saudi Arabia. [75]
An M-PESA agent shop in Nairobi, Kenya. In such shops, customers can access most M-PESA services. Safaricom and Vodafone launched M-PESA, a mobile-based payment service targeting the un-banked, pre-pay mobile subscribers in Kenya on a pilot basis in October 2005. [6]