Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Telecommunications |
Area served | Kenya |
Products | Mobile telephony Broadband Internet services |
Parent | Airtel Africa |
Website | www |
Airtel Kenya Ltd., a subsidiary of Airtel Africa (owned by Bharti Airtel), is the second largest telecommunications services provider in Kenya after Safaricom PLC.[1] It has an estimated 16.2 million subscribers of the total 59.8 million subscribers in the Kenyan market equivalent to 27.2% market share. Airtel market share has been rising steadily over the last few years.[2][3]
Airtel Kenya previously operated as Kencell, Celtel, and Zain before rebranding to Airtel in November 2010.[4]
As of 2020 its CEO was Prashanta Das Sharma.[5]