{"id":232194,"date":"2026-05-03T02:47:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-safaricom-boosts-home-fibre-speeds-by-up-to-2-5-times\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:47:40","slug":"kenya-safaricom-boosts-home-fibre-speeds-by-up-to-2-5-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-safaricom-boosts-home-fibre-speeds-by-up-to-2-5-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Safaricom Boosts Home Fibre Speeds By Up to 2.5 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Safaricom has increased Home Fibre internet speeds by up to 2.5 times across all packages at no extra cost to customers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The upgrade raises entry-level speeds to about 15 Mbps, mid-tier plans to 35 Mbps and 80 Mbps, while higher packages now reach up to 400 Mbps, targeting households with heavy internet use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Chief Executive Peter Ndegwa said the move is aimed at meeting rising demand for faster and more reliable internet as more services shift online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;With this upgrade, we aim to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010408.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>Nairobi \u2014 Safaricom has increased Home Fibre internet speeds by up to 2.5 times across all packages at no extra cost to customers. The upgrade raises entry-level speeds to about 15 Mbps, mid-tier plans to 35 Mbps and 80 Mbps, while higher packages now reach up to 400 Mbps, targeting households with heavy internet use. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":232195,"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":[258,256,9156,19411,8849,4688,430,257,436,254,42510,6592],"class_list":["post-232194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boosts","tag-fibre","tag-home","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-safaricom","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speeds","tag-times"],"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\/232194","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=232194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}