Red Hat Underpins Safaricom Cloud Transformation to Improve Mobile Experience and Financial Inclusion for Millions of Customers

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Safaricom, a leading provider of converged communication solutions in Kenya, has deployed Red Hat OpenShift as a common cloud platform for applications, including the M-PESA system.

Safaricom has more than 45 million subscribers and the widest modern mobile network coverage in Kenya. It runs sensitive applications with high uptime and stability requirements. This includes third party applications that connect to the renowned M-PESA core platform, a mobile payment system that supports 51 million customers making over $314 billion in transactions per year across Africa, helping promote greater financial inclusion by enabling unbanked and underbanked people to transfer money, pay bills and trade.