The blackout that persisted for several hours highlighted the vulnerability of Kenya's telecommunications and mobile money networks, prompting the industry regulator to seek an explanation from Safaricom. This outage affected voice, data, SMS, M-Pesa, and enterprise services"We have identified the root cause of the outage and are working to resolve this in the shortest time possible. According to data from CA, Sh892 billion worth of mobile money was transferred through the firm's mobile money network over the second quarter of the current financial year. The mobile service provider commands a 71 per cent market share of the mobile money network, with 27.7 million subscribers as at December last year. Mr Rotich said an outage on M-Pesa could lead to loss of revenue by both public and private firms and a reduction of confidence in services.

Source: Standard Digital April 24, 2017 17:27 UTC