M PESA Gains 8.3 Million Customers

The number of customers using digital financial service provider M PESA Safaricom has reached 8.3 million.

M-PESA had 1.2 million customers. It grew exponentially after that. In a statement yesterday, Safaricom mentioned that the transaction done through M Pesa had reached 6.4 billion birr. The company’s network and service coverage reached 46 percent of the total population, a 30 percent increase compared to 12 months ago.

Safaricom Ethiopia, which has built more than 3,000 network towers across the country, says that the number of its active mobile service customers has crossed 6.1 million.

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