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Kenya’s biggest telecoms company Safaricom is joining up with a local software firm to launch a ride-hailing company to take on Uber. Safaricom, which is 40 percent owned by Britain’s Vodafone, and Nairobi-based software developer Craft Silicon will launch the app called Littlecabs in the next three weeks.
Uber operates in several African countries, including Kenya where it launched in early 2015, drawing customers by offering lower prices and cutting out haggling over fares. Safaricom will help develop the application, offer the network connectivity, install Wi-Fi in vehicles that will be signed up, and use its mobile-phone based financial service M-Pesa to process payments
