Kenya’s BRCK becomes largest public Wi-Fi network in Sub-Saharan Africa

BRCK, the Kenyan company bringing internet access to East Africa, has 
acquired Surf, another internet provider, to become the largest public 
WiFi network in Sub-Saharan Africa.

BRCK was formed in 2013 by some of the co-founders of Ushahidi and 
Nairobi’s iHub as a means of countering Kenya’s notorious power 
failures with a portable hotspot, It then expanded into education 
bringing multimedia video education into classrooms across East Africa.

In 2017, it launched a smart system called Supa BRCK, which aimed to 
solve the lack of internet access in Africa by bringing the internet 
to rural villages.

By acquiring Surf, which is the second-largest public WiFi provider in 
Kenya, BRCK aims to grow faster in fixed WiFi locations.”

Plans also include finding new ways to enter new geographic markets, 
starting with fixed WiFi and then with “transportation and edge 
connectivity”.

The combined companies will now have over 2,000 public hotspots across 
Kenya, with 500,000 users a month.

BRCK believes that the acquisition will go a long way towards 
supporting Africa’s technological evolution.