Nairobi, March 14 -- Airtel Kenya grew its share in the voice market by one percentage point in the three months to December 2023, eating into the shares of its main rivals Safaricom and Telkom Kenya.

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) data shows Airtel increased its voice share to 36 percent during the quarter up from 35 percent in the preceding quarter.

As a result, the voice share of market leader Safaricom fell from 64 percent to 63.3 percent while the share of Telkom also fell from one percent to 0.5 percent.

During the period, the volume of local mobile calls increased by 6.1 percent to 23.6 billion minutes up from 22.2 billion minutes reported in the preceding quarter.

"The significant increase is attributed to the long...