M-Pesa will be unavailable for five hours on Friday for maintenance, Safaricom has said.
Safaricom said on Thursday the scheduled maintenance will run from 11.59pm tonight to 5am on Friday.
"We regularly undertake enhancements and maintenance of our system from time to time," the telco said in a statement.
"During the maintenance, all M-Pesa services including airtime purchase shall be temporarily unavailable."
Safaricom noted that the timing of this maintenance activity has been planned to cause the least of inconvenience to customers
"We apologise for any inconvenience that may be caused," it added.
On June, Safaricom undertook routine maintenance of its M-Pesa services.
M-Pesa services have transformed many lives and businesses in the country.
In April, the company announced that its service revenue grew by 4.8 per cent for the year that ended on March 31, to Sh251.2 billion compared to Sh239.8 billion the previous year.
M-Pesa accounted for 33.6 per cent of the firm’s earnings, second after voice calls which contributed 34.5 per cent of Safaricom’s service revenue.
M-Pesa revenue grew by 12.6 per cent to Sh84.44 billion while voice service (incoming and outgoing) revenue dropped 1.4 per cent to Sh94.45 billion during the period under review.
