Safaricom launches Kenya's first 4G Internet services

By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - Safaricom launched Kenya's first fourth-generation (4G) Internet services on Thursday, seeking to capitalise on burgeoning mobile Internet use in the country. The government of the east African nation of 40 million people wants the use of 4G high-speed broadband network to help raise the Internet's contribution to economic growth to 10 percent in 2017 from about 3 percent this year. Safaricom - Kenya's largest telecoms phone firm - saw web data revenue rise