AshleyNyaboke/wallet-price-war

Interactive analysis of Kenya's M-Pesa vs Airtel Money business wallet pricing war real 2026 tariff data + a monthly cost calculator # Wallet Wars: M-Pesa vs Airtel Money Business Pricing (2026) **Live demo →** A data-driven look at Kenya's mobile money business-wallet pricing war, triggered by two opposite moves in mid-2026: - **Safaricom** cut M-Pesa Business Till transfer fees by up to 50%, effective August 7, 2026, as part of its "PATA MORE" SME campaign. - **Airtel** quietly raised Airtel Money cross-network transfer and withdrawal fees in July 2026, while keeping Airtel-to-Airtel transfers free. This project translates both telcos' published 2026 tariff tables into a side-by-side comparison and an interactive monthly-cost calculator, so a small business owner (or a curious analyst) can see what the "price war" actually costs in shillings. ## What's in it - **Tariff tables** for both providers, sourced and dated, showing exact fee changes by transaction band. - **A cost simulator** modeling monthly transfer costs at the one band both companies publish on a directly comparable basis (KSh10,001–15,000). - **No fabricated data** — where the two telcos don't publish comparable bands, the gap is left visible rather than interpolated or estimated. ## Why this band, why this scope Both providers price in discrete tiers rather than a flat percentage, and their published bands don't fully overlap. Rather than inventing numbers to build a smooth continuous calculator, this project scopes the interactive comparison to the band where a real apples-to-apples comparison exists, and presents the rest of the published data as reference tables. That tradeoff — comparability over completeness — is the core data-integrity decision behind the project. ## Sources - TUKO.co.ke — "Safaricom lowers M-Pesa transaction charges" (Aug 2026) - The Kenya Times — "M-PESA Tariffs 2026" (Aug 2026), "New Airtel Money Charges 2026" (Jul 2026) - Biznakenya.com — "Airtel raises Airtel Money charges" (Jul 2026) - tech-ish.com — "Airtel Money quietly hikes M-PESA transfer fees" (Jul 2026) ## Tech Single-file HTML/CSS/ …