Safaricom has quietly increased the speeds of its Bronze package, which goes for KES 3,000. Before the telco made many changes to the Home Fibre product some years ago, Bronze speeds were capped at 5 Mbps. Safaricom then introduced speed caps to tame Home Fibre resellers, boosting the speeds to 8 Mbps. The current speeds are now at 10 Mbps, although Safaricom has yet to make this announcement official.

Other packages have remained the same and at the same price. Here is a summary:
Package | Speed in Mbps | Price in KES | FUP in GB | Speeds after FUP in Mbps |
Bronze | 10 | 3,000 | 500 | 1 |
Silver | 20 | 4,100 | 1000 | 3 |
Gold | 40 | 6,300 | 1000 | 3 |
Diamond | 100 | 12,500 | 1000 | 3 |
Home Fibre Customers continue to receive internet speeds at a ratio of 1:4. This ratio means that during high network traffic, which can lead to congestion, the actual speeds experienced may decrease to as low as 25% of the speed advertised for their specific package.
New customers can get a connection without paying for the router. This means that they only have to pay for the package. During relocation, they must carry the router with them, or they will have to pay KES 6,500 for a new one.
Per numbers
In its Sustainability Report for FY2023, Safaricom said it had laid over 14,000 km of fibre optic network across all 47 counties and closed at 6,260 fibre-ready buildings. It has connected 275,657 homes and over 48,373 fixed data customers to the internet, and over 26,860 businesses through 4G LTE.
“In FY23, we focused on enhancing the potential for success of our dealers. One of the ways we did so was by enabling dealers to sell fibre to the home (FTTH) and entry level enterprise business unit (EBU) products which generated additional revenues. We reduced the price of fixed wireless access (FWA) routers to make them more affordable and allow customers to connect to the internet,” Safaricom said in the report.