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The Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) has reported a decline in local mobile voice traffic despite there being growth in mobile subscriptions for the period between January and March this year.
According to the quarterly sector statistics report for the period, local mobile voice traffic stood at 7.6 billion minutes, down from the 7.8 billion minutes recorded during the previous quarter.
“Subscriber average minutes of use was recorded at 80.3 minutes per month compared to 84.1 minutes registered in the last quarter. Similarly, SMS traffic declined by 1.0 per cent to reach 6.22 billion down from 6.28 billion messages sent during the preceding quarter. Thus, each subscriber sent out an average of 65.1 messages per month,” read part of the report.
Two operators increased their market share of voice traffic while two operators dropped. Safaricom maintained its lead with 6.0 billion minutes, down from 6.1 billion minutes registered during the previous quarter. Despite this drop, its market share increased by 0.3 percentage points to reach 78.5 per cent.
Orange Kenya traffic volume reached 234 million minutes, down from 208 million minutes
during the previous quarter, representing a market share of 3.1 per cent. This is a gain of 0.5 percentage points during the quarter. Airtel lost 0.4 percentage points to claim 10.9 per cent market share, equivalent to 835 million minutes during the quarter, down from 892 million minutes posted during the last quarter.
Essar Telecom Limited recorded a 0.3 percentage point drop to post 7.6 per cent share,corresponding to 583 million minutes during the quarter.
