{"id":127889,"date":"2025-09-10T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127889\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:50:07","slug":"airtel-kenya-moves-into-home-fiber-as-demand-for-high-speed-internet-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127889\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel Kenya Moves Into Home Fiber as Demand for High-Speed Internet Surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The move reflects Airtel\u2019s broader strategy to capture a share of Kenya\u2019s expanding broadband market, where subscriptions have surged in recent years. <\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"1200\" height=\"809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/airtel_kenya-1.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>    <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"158\" data-end=\"522\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtelkenya.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" auto-attrs=\"\">Airtel Kenya\u00a0<\/a> has kicked off construction of its new Tatu City facility in Nairobi, a $150 million data centre aimed at strengthening the country\u2019s digital infrastructure. At the groundbreaking event on September 9, 2025, Airtel also signalled that it is preparing to launch home fiber services, promising faster and more reliable internet for urban households.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"524\" data-end=\"800\">Currently, Airtel serves homes via its Smartbox fixed wireless access device, which offers battery backup and improved indoor coverage. The move reflects Airtel\u2019s broader strategy to capture a share of Kenya\u2019s expanding broadband market, where subscriptions have surged in recent years, and to provide urban homes with the high-speed, stable internet increasingly required for work, education, and entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The move reflects Airtel\u2019s broader strategy to capture a share of Kenya\u2019s expanding broadband market, where subscriptions have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-127889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}