Building the broadband gateway for Africa's urban mass market.

A capital-efficient, predictable and replicable broadband platform, proven in Nairobi on commercial terms and now raising to scale into neighbourhoods we have already mapped.

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konnekt on the investment panel at ITW Africa 2026 — konnekt on stage at ITW Africa 2026.

A third of the capital cost

One-third the capital cost of other operators, including fixed wireless (FWA) and other fibre networks. Building only where density is highest means each neighbourhood network costs tens of thousands of dollars, not hundreds of thousands.

Predictable

Nearly three years of cohort-level payment data, with audited management accounts behind every figure in the IM.

Replicable

One pricing menu, one agent model, one M-Pesa paybill and one network design, transplanted BNC by BNC.

Beyond the pipe

Learning, media, retail, rewards and financial services built on the same household relationship.

How we grow

What is a BNC?

A Broadband Network Community (BNC) is a self-contained konnekt fibre network for one dense neighbourhood. Each has its own hub (a Point of Presence, or PoP), a fibre backbone run along its streets, fibre-ready apartment buildings, a konnekt Shop and a local team hired from the neighbourhood. Because every BNC uses the same design, pricing and team model, konnekt grows by adding BNCs rather than building one large network ahead of demand.

New to the terms? See the glossary ↓

The model, in the field

What the playbook looks like on the street.

A Nairobi street lined with multi-storey apartment blocks — **Fibre-ready MDUs.** Dense apartment blocks: the density that makes fibre pay.

The konnekt team with a ladder preparing a building connection on an apartment street — **Building by building.** Crews connect each block once it is graded.

The konnekt team outside a konnekt Experience Centre — **A visible konnekt Shop** in every network zone.

konnekt agents signing up customers on a busy street — **Local agents** sign up customers street by street.

A street of neighbourhood shops with a konnekt partner sign — **Partner dukas** extend sales, retail and click-and-collect.

konnekt Retail — **Partner dukas** extend sales, retail and click-and-collect.

Market

A dense, affordable market, sized from the ground up.

Sized bottom-up from KNBS household income data and Communications Authority of Kenya sector reports. Connectivity only: digital services and devices are upside on top.

Sources: KNBS KIHBS 2024; CA Kenya Sector Statistics; ITU / A4AI; konnekt analysis.

Three building types: multi-dwelling units, low-rise multi-dwelling units and single dwelling units — The buildings we serve: high-rise MDUs first, then low-rise MDUs and single dwellings.

All Kenyan households at affordable broadband pricing$2.04B / yr

Urban mass-market households in high-density areas$558M / yr

Nairobi neighbourhoods mapped & graded12

Capital roadmap

Capital follows proven demand.

COMPLETE
Pre-seed & seed
Incubation, Microsoft grant, first two network communities live.
OPEN NOW · ROLLING
Pre-Series A
Funds new BNCs in mapped neighbourhoods and the first digital services.
2027
Series A
Nairobi scale-up, with DFI co-investment.
2029
Series B
Replication across Kenyan cities and into new African markets.

A konnekt Academy grow-your-business session with participants raising their hands

For grant funders & DFIs

Commercial model, measurable inclusion outcomes.

Blended finance & co-investment

Structured to sit alongside DFIs and impact investors, from first-loss to co-investment in the Series A.

Programme partnerships

Digital skills for women, content for first-time users, and affordable-access research with the data to report on it.

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Konnekt Digital Networks UK Limited · holding company, London
Konnekt Wave Digital Networks (Kenya) Limited · operating company, Nairobi
Communications Authority of Kenya licences: Network Facilities Provider Tier 3 (build, operate and lease network infrastructure in up to three counties, 15-year term) and national Applications Service Provider · own ASN and IP allocation

Glossary

Common terms

The words we use for our networks, products and measures, in plain language.

konnekt terms

BNC: Broadband Network Community. A self-contained, neighbourhood-scale konnekt fibre network with its own hub (PoP), equipment and local team. konnekt grows BNC by BNC.
BlueZone: konnekt's meshed public Wi-Fi in markets, bus stages and streets, sold as M-Pesa vouchers.
konnekt Easy: A second Wi-Fi network broadcast from every konnekt home router, selling on-demand passes for single devices.
konnekt recommends: konnekt's free, curated portal of video, live TV and websites.
konnekt Shop: The local shop and support centre (Experience Centre) in each BNC.
Flexi plans: Daily, 3-day, weekly and fortnightly plans for households paid by the day or week.
Free trial: Every qualified household gets ten days of the full service, free, before paying.
Hero Customer: An existing customer who refers new households and is rewarded for it.
Caretaker: The person who manages a multi-dwelling building for its owner, and a key konnekt access and referral partner.
Digital Inclusion Pyramid: konnekt's model of digital inclusion: access and content at the base, then commerce, then services such as finance and rewards.

Network & technology

FTTH: Fibre-to-the-Home: a fibre cable runs all the way into the home. konnekt's core technology.
FWA: Fixed Wireless Access: residential internet delivered by radio rather than cable. Speeds drop as more users share the signal.
GPON: Gigabit Passive Optical Network: the fibre technology konnekt uses. One fibre is split to serve many homes.
PoP: Point of Presence: the local hub that houses a BNC's network equipment and connects it to the backbone.
OLT: Optical Line Terminal: the active fibre equipment inside a PoP.
FAT: Fibre Access Terminal: the distribution point from which drop cables run into each home.
ONU / CPE: The router in the customer's home (Optical Network Unit; customer premises equipment).
MDU: Multi-dwelling unit: an apartment or rental building with many households, often 30 or more.
Fibre-ready: A building where konnekt has already installed fibre, so a home can be connected within hours of a request.
Backhaul: The link carrying traffic from the neighbourhood network to the wider internet. konnekt's partner is WIOCC.
Peering: Exchanging traffic directly with other networks instead of buying it as transit.
ASN: Autonomous System Number: konnekt's own routing identity on the internet, issued by AFRINIC.
Splynx: konnekt's billing, network-access and customer-management platform.

Market & measures

Meaningful connectivity: The ITU and A4AI standard: daily use, a suitable device, 4G-like speeds and unlimited access at home, work or school.
Homes passed: Homes close enough to konnekt's fibre to be connected.
Take rate: Paying customers as a share of homes passed, or of households in fibre-ready buildings.
Active customers: Households with an active konnekt connection at any point in the month.
MAU: Monthly active users: customers who paid in the month.
Churn: The share of paying customers lost in a month.
ARPU: Average revenue per user per month.
M-Pesa: Safaricom's mobile-money service, which konnekt customers use to pay.

Regulation

CA: Communications Authority of Kenya, the sector regulator.
NFP-T3 licence: Network Facilities Provider Tier 3 licence from the CA, allowing konnekt to build and operate network infrastructure.
ASP licence: Application Service Provider licence from the CA, allowing konnekt to provide internet services.