{"id":207828,"date":"2025-10-12T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/207828\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:12:07","slug":"safaricom-is-cutting-home-fiber-tonight-for-8-hour-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/207828\/","title":{"rendered":"Safaricom Is Cutting Home Fiber Tonight for 8-Hour Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safaricom is taking its <a href=\"https:\/\/techweez.com\/tag\/safaricom-home-fiber\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home Fiber<\/a> service offline for scheduled maintenance starting tonight at 10:00 PM and running until Monday tomorrow morning at 6:00 AM, an eight-hour window that will leave subscribers without internet access.<\/p>\n<p>The company notified customers yesterday that payment services will also be unavailable during the maintenance period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJambo, we\u2019re doing a Fiber service update on Oct 12 (10 PM) to Oct 13 (6 AM). Your connection may be interrupted. Payment services will be unavailable. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Safaricom<\/p>\n<p>This maintenance comes as Safaricom has been pushing to expand its fiber customer base. In August, the company announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/techweez.com\/2025\/08\/11\/safaricom-slashes-business-fiber-prices-by-25-to-woo-smes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">25% discount on all new business fiber connections<\/a>, dropping the entry-level 15 Mbps plan from KES 2,999 to KES 2,249 monthly, while the top-tier 100 Mbps package fell from KES 6,299 to KES 4,724.<\/p>\n<p>The telco is bundling these offers with business credit products to give small and medium enterprises more flexible payment options.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond fiber, Safaricom has been upgrading its core infrastructure. The company recently deployed Fintech 2.0, the first major overhaul of its M-PESA platform since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The new system <a href=\"https:\/\/techweez.com\/2025\/09\/19\/m-pesa-upgrades-to-6000-transactions-per-second\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">increases transaction capacity from 4,500 to 6,000 transactions per second<\/a>, with the potential to scale up to 12,000 transactions per second.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the upgrade includes an active-active architecture that runs across multiple data centers simultaneously, designed to minimize downtime and improve reliability across the payment platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Safaricom is taking its Home Fiber service offline for scheduled maintenance starting tonight at 10:00 PM and running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49,48,3231,101365,244,3232,3233,61],"class_list":["post-207828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fiber","tag-home-fiber","tag-internet","tag-safaricom","tag-safaricom-home-fiber","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}