{"id":30776,"date":"2025-09-19T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/30776\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:34:14","slug":"m-pesa-services-to-be-unvailable-as-safaricom-rolls-out-major-system-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/30776\/","title":{"rendered":"M-Pesa services to be unvailable as Safaricom rolls out major system upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.digital\/author\/benjamin-muriuki-738\" data-v-6a9be09c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/A0VQKgfX6zNlevkDVAQKE7KPXZg5M8LL2AnOZ3Js.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Muriuki\" data-v-6a9be09c=\"\"\/><\/a> By<br \/>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.digital\/author\/benjamin-muriuki-738\" data-v-6a9be09c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    Benjamin Muriuki<br \/>\n                  <\/a><br \/>\n                  Published on:  September 19, 2025 01:53 (EAT)<br \/>\n                  <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"M-Pesa services to be unvailable as Safaricom rolls out major system upgrade\" alt=\"M-Pesa services to be unvailable as Safaricom rolls out major system upgrade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/saf-og_image.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" data-v-6a9be09c=\"\"\/>   <img decoding=\"async\" data-v-7257c9c5=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tts-pre-loader.gif\" alt=\"Vocalize Pre-Player Loader\" style=\"all:unset!important;display:inline!important;\" data-v-6a9be09c=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7257c9c5=\"\" style=\"font-size:13px;margin-left:20px;\" data-v-6a9be09c=\"\">Audio By Vocalize<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">M-Pesa services will be<br \/>\ntemporarily unavailable for three hours on Monday, September 22, 2025, as Safaricom conducts a scheduled system upgrade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" data-start=\"252\" data-end=\"468\">In a notice<br \/>\nissued on Friday, Safaricom PLC announced that the maintenance exercise will<br \/>\ntake place from 12:30<br \/>\nAM to 3:30 AM, during which all M-Pesa services, including<br \/>\nairtime purchases, will be inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" data-start=\"470\" data-end=\"657\">The<br \/>\ntelecommunications company stated that the exercise is part of its commitment<br \/>\nto providing secure, reliable, and worry-free financial services to millions of<br \/>\ncustomers across Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" data-start=\"659\" data-end=\"976\">\u201cFor 18 years,<br \/>\nM-Pesa has continued to transform lives across Kenya, connecting customers to<br \/>\nopportunities every day. To support this and meet our promise to offer<br \/>\nalways-on, safe, secure, and worry-free financial products and services, we<br \/>\nwill be conducting a scheduled system upgrade,\u201d the statement read in part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to Safaricom, the upgrade is the most significant since 2015, and it introduces Fintech 2.0, a next-generation<br \/>\ncore platform designed to strengthen resilience, expand capacity, and unlock<br \/>\nadvanced, AI-driven innovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%\">\u201cThis upgrade is a bold<br \/>\ninvestment in the future of M-PESA and reaffirmation of our commitment to<br \/>\ninnovation, resilience and customer trust. By moving to Fintech 2.0, we are<br \/>\nunlocking a platform that not only scales to meet today\u2019s demands but also<br \/>\nanticipates tomorrow\u2019s opportunities,\u201d said Safaricom CEO Dr Peter Ndegwa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%\">The new M-PESA Core<br \/>\nwill expand capacity from 4,500 to 6,000 transactions per second, with the<br \/>\npotential to scale up to 12,000 transactions as demand grows. It will also<br \/>\nintroduce an active-active architecture across multiple hosting sites,<br \/>\nguaranteeing higher resilience and minimal service interruption.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Benjamin Muriuki Published on: September 19, 2025 01:53 (EAT) Audio By Vocalize M-Pesa services will be temporarily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,24841,202,80],"class_list":["post-30776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-m-pesa","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}