{"id":229865,"date":"2026-04-09T01:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mobile-subscriptions-rise-to-51-4m-as-growth-shifts-to-usage\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T01:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:50:10","slug":"kenya-mobile-subscriptions-rise-to-51-4m-as-growth-shifts-to-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mobile-subscriptions-rise-to-51-4m-as-growth-shifts-to-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Mobile Subscriptions Rise to 51.4m As Growth Shifts to Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Communications Authority of Kenya said mobile subscriptions rose by 9 million to 51.36 million in the year to December 2025, up from 42.30 million the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The increase included a 5.6% rise in the December quarter, supported by higher consumer activity during the holiday period. The data shows continued expansion in connectivity, but market dynamics are changing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Mobile money penetration reached 98%, limiting further user growth. Operators are now focusing on usage, including transaction&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604080759.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Authority of Kenya said mobile subscriptions rose by 9 million to 51.36 million in the year to December 2025, up from 42.30 million the previous year. The increase included a 5.6% rise in the December quarter, supported by higher consumer activity during the holiday period. The data shows continued expansion in connectivity, but market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[54113,258,256,6641,4688,430,6261,257,10256,5758,254,7110,18939],"class_list":["post-229865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-51-4m","tag-africa","tag-growth","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-rise","tag-shifts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-subscriptions","tag-usage"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}