Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore [Photo/Kenya Today]
Safaricom Limited has managed to avoid a Sh400 million fine set to be issued by the Communications Authority (CA) following the country wide outage back in April this year.
The outage is reported to have crippled many of the telecom's service such as data internet, SMS, and M-PESA.
According to Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore the hour long outage was a result of two failing routers at two of their key data centers.
The ICT Authority thus decided to carry out investigations and stated they would fine the company should they find them liable.
If the company found liable they could have received a fine of Sh500,000 to 0.2% of the gross turnover depending on the damage.
However they were issued a warning after it was discovered they had no direct involvement in the outage according to to CA's Director General Francis Wangusi.
The company has since submitted a report to both CA and the Central Bank of Kenya.