![]() ![]() ![]() The partnership will cover over 24 million M-Pesa customers, more than 173,000 M-Pesa merchants from Safaricom and more than 61 million merchants on Visa’s network. The deal will see the pair work on the development of new products and services supporting digital payment for customers of Safaricom’s M-Pesa micro-finance and payments platform. Last month, Safaricom – which is the largest mobile operator in Kenya – signed a partnership deal with payments giant Visa. Payments on M-Pesa are made via SMS utilising unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) technology, meaning anybody with a mobile phone can use the service. The mobile operator’s CEO, Peter Ndegwa, says a wider partnership with Amazon “is important as we go into new areas such as cloud”. And it works with Amazon to run the e-commerce giant’s cloud sales out of Nairobi. Safaricom already has partnerships with Alibaba and Paypal. A wider partnership with Amazon “is important”, says Safaricom CEO Bracing for the cloud ![]()
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