Kenya · Infrastructure
Kenya added 5G transceivers while 2G remained the largest category
Kenya recorded 446,591 mobile transceivers in 2025, including 196,734 for 2G and 6,518 for 5G. The overall count rose by 10.8% from 2024, with 2G and 4G providing most of the additional units.
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2025
Shared scale · 0 transceivers to 196,734 transceivers
2022
Shared scale · 0 transceivers to 196,734 transceivers
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2G accounted for 44% of the 2025 equipment count
The 2G count rose from 175,674 in 2024 to 196,734 in 2025. KNBS links that increase to legacy services and wider rural coverage. The count does not measure the share of subscribers using 2G. Source 1
4G overtook 3G in the published 2025 count
There were 127,823 4G and 115,516 3G transceivers in 2025. A year earlier, 4G had 106,620 and 3G had 117,382. 3G was the only technology in the table whose reported count declined from 2024 to 2025. Source 1
5G had the fastest percentage increase from a small base
The 5G count rose from 102 in 2022 to 2,796 in 2023, 3,556 in 2024 and 6,518 in 2025. The last increase was 83.3%, while 5G still represented about 1.5% of all reported transceivers. Source 1
Equipment counts do not measure sites or geographic coverage
The records count transceivers by network generation. A site can serve more than one generation or use more than one unit. These figures do not indicate how many unique towers exist, what land area has coverage or what speeds subscribers experience. Source 1