Safaricom has announced its half year financial result for 2011/2012. The company’s profit after taxation decreased by 47.4% to stand at 4.0 Billion from 7.6 Billion last year. Active subscriber base grew by 8% to stand at 18.1 Million. Of the the subscribers 82.4% have M-Pesa are so are also registered as per the CCK requirement.
Generally Safaricom’s revenue grew by 5.3% to stand at 49.6 Billion in the last 6 months. Of that Data revenue grew by 30.4% to stand at 14.6 Billion while M-Pesa revenue grew by a massive 49.3% to stand at 7.9 Billion. There was a growth of 36.3% in broadband revenue which stands at 3.1 Billion in September 2011.
Some interesting stats from the Safaricom Half year results;
- M-Pesa agents now stand at 32,000 with the client base growing by 9.8% to stand at 14.9%
- Ksh 314 Billion ($3.15 bn) worth of M-Pesa transactions were moved in the six months
- 82.4% of Safaricom’s clients are now using M-Pesa
- 43% growth in Safaricom data clients to stand at 5.1 Million
- Mobile and Fixed Data revenue grew by 36.3% to stand at 3.1 Billion
- Safaricom controls 92% of Kenya’s data market according to CCK
- 52% of Safaricom network is now 3G active
- Safaricom rolling out 21Mbps 3G network but is also testing 42Mbps network in some areas
- Safaricom not pursuing the fibre-to-home ideas as it get some lessons over experience with the same
- Fixed data clients up by 92% to stand at 6,177 from 3,223 in September 2010
Happy to see they are still making profits considering the scare they got last year when calling rates reduced drastically. Now they have decided to rip us off through their data services by capping our not-so-unlimited speeds. I like M-Pesa so i won’t complain as no one has given it “recognizable” competition.
Zain is big, Orange is really huge, Yu has muscle.. but they can’t knock down safaricom?????!!! Maybe its time they amalgamated and stopped wasting their investors’ money…
Happy to see they are still making profits considering the scare they got last year when calling rates reduced drastically. Now they have decided to rip us off through their data services by capping our not-so-unlimited speeds. I like M-Pesa so i won’t complain as no one has given it “recognizable” competition.
Zain is big, Orange is really huge, Yu has muscle.. but they can’t knock down safaricom?????!!! Maybe its time they amalgamated and stopped wasting their investors’ money…