Safaricom to move MPESA servers from Germany.

Safaricom will move MPESA servers from Germany to Kenya, in a bid to increase the capacity of the service. Safaricom seeks to upgrade MPESA to a new platform that will enable consumers make many more payments instantly. Currently, the servers handle about 200 to 300 transactions per second. Huawei technologies of China has been contracted to carry out the upgrade. Safaricom is moving rapidly to generate new revenue streams, away from the traditional voice services, which is stagnating. It will also be a vendor of the Samsung galaxy 4, to tap into the growing market of middle class Kenyans who want sophisticated smartphones.

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