Mobile Service Providers East Africa

East African region has one of the highest numbers of mobile phone subscribers in the world. As a result, many of the big time telecos found in the west have been attracted to the region. UK's Vodafone operates in Kenya under the name Safaricom.

MTN that has an Africa wide presence is present in Uganda as MTN Uganda.

Kenya

Mobile penetration rate of Kenya stands at 74%. There are a total of 29.2 million mobile phone subscribers in this country. Regulator in Kenya is Communication Commission of Kenya(CCK).

The regulator is Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK)

There are four mobile phone operators in this country namely:

 1.Orange- Owned by Telekom Kenya- 3 million subscribers

 2.Safaricom- Owned by Vodafone UK- 19.1 million subscribers

3.Airtel- Owned By Bharti Airtel India- 4.5 million subscribers

4.YU- Owned by Essar Group- 2.6 million subscribers


Rwanda

 Penetration in this country is one of the lowest because the country is in the process of recovering from civil strife

Mobile networks

1.) MTN- 2.8 million

2.)Tigo- 0.8 million subscribers

3.)Bharti Airtel

4.)Rwanda Tel

Uganda

The population of Uganda  is over 30 million and only a paltry 30% of the population are using mobile phones.

1.)MTN

2.)Airtel

3.) UT Mobile

4.) Orange Uganda

5.) Warid

6.) Essar

Tanzania

 Tanzania has about 10 telecom operators. Penetration stands at 48% making it the second highest in Eastern Africa after Kenya.

Top three networks are:

1.) Vodacom

2.) Tigo

3.) Airtel

Kenya is the most lcurative market in the telecoms industry in East Africa with penetration standing at over 70%.