Family Share on Safaricom Home Fibre now offers minutes or data for five people

If you are the person in your family who sends credit every month, to a parent upcountry, a sibling in college or the house help, Safaricom built Family Share for you. It is an add-on to Home Fibre. On the Bronze plan, KES 750 a month on top of the fibre buys 14 GB of mobile data or 750 voice minutes, your choice, to spread across up to five Safaricom numbers. The people on those numbers can be anywhere in the country. Everything sits on one bill, in one name, and the shares repeat every month with the fibre. We covered the whole Pata More offer last month, including the speed bump on every plan; this piece is the sharing part, explained from the start.

You keep your Home Fibre plan, on any of the four main tiers. In My OneApp, under Home Internet, you add Family Share to the plan and pick one of two pots: minutes or data. *400# works too if you prefer USSD. Then you name the beneficiaries, up to five Safaricom numbers, and decide how much of the pot each one gets. Your mother might get 200 minutes, your sister 150, and so on.

You do that once. The pot is bought and renewed together with the fibre package, so each month, when the fibre bill goes through, the same shares arrive on the same five phones. Nobody has to ask, and nobody has to send. If your mother is on the list for 200 minutes, she has 200 minutes at the start of every cycle, on her own phone, to use as she likes.

The rules, from Safaricom’s Home Fibre terms:

• Each share lasts 30 days, the same cycle as the fibre, and a fresh one arrives with the next bill.
• You can add, remove or replace a beneficiary at any time, so the list follows your family as it changes.
• The minutes call any Kenyan network. A beneficiary on Safaricom can ring an Airtel or Telkom number with them. They cover local calls; international calls, roaming and premium numbers sit outside the pot.
• A share stays with the person it was given to; they use it on their own phone rather than passing it on.
• Family Share goes with a Home Fibre line. The fibre is the account the pot hangs off.

The shares are mobile resources on the phones, separate from the fibre line itself. So on the day the power goes or the fibre is being worked on, the five phones still have their minutes and data.

The choice comes down to what your family actually uses. Kenyans still call a lot. The country logged 32.3 billion mobile voice minutes in the first three months of 2026, and the average line talked for 128 minutes a month, according to the Communications Authority’s latest sector report. Messaging has moved to WhatsApp; calling has stayed on the phone. For most families, “send me credit” is a request for talk time.

That makes the minutes pot the one to look at first. On Bronze it is 750 minutes for KES 750, which is KES 1 a minute. Safaricom’s standard daytime rate is KES 4.87 a minute, so the pot buys the same calling for a fraction of the airtime it would take. Split five ways it is 150 minutes each, more than the average Kenyan line uses in a month. So on the cheapest fibre plan, the voice pot covers five ordinary callers for the whole month, with change. If the people you look after are parents, older relatives or anyone who phones rather than texts, this is the pot.

The data pot is 14 GB for the same KES 750, or 2.8 GB each across five people. It suits a household of students and younger relatives whose phones live on WhatsApp and YouTube. As a benchmark, Safaricom’s monthly bundle at KES 250 gives one number 1 GB and 50 minutes. Four of those for four people is KES 1,000 for 4 GB and 200 minutes in total. The Family Share pot, at KES 750, carries 14 GB or 750 minutes. Whichever you choose, it is more for less, and it arrives on its own.

Each pot is one or the other. A family that wants plenty of both can step up a tier, where the pots are bigger, or pick the one that answers most of the requests.

The pot grows with the fibre plan, and Gold and Diamond carry the same add-on.

Plan	Fibre speed	Family Share add-on	You choose	Per person, five ways	Total per month
Bronze	40 Mbps	KES 750	14 GB or 750 minutes	2.8 GB or 150 minutes	KES 3,749
Silver	60 Mbps	KES 1,000	21 GB or 1,100 minutes	4.2 GB or 220 minutes	KES 5,100
Gold	150 Mbps	KES 1,500	33 GB or 1,600 minutes	6.6 GB or 320 minutes	KES 7,799
Diamond	500 Mbps	KES 1,500	33 GB or 1,600 minutes	6.6 GB or 320 minutes	KES 13,999

The split is yours to set. Five ways is the widest spread; a household putting two numbers on the Bronze pot gives each of them 375 minutes or 7 GB.

Start with the list. Write down who you send credit to and whether each of them calls or browses. If it is mostly calls, take the minutes pot. If it is mostly browsing, take the data pot. If the list is long on both, Silver’s pot at KES 1,000 gives 1,100 minutes or 21 GB, and Gold’s at KES 1,500 gives 1,600 minutes or 33 GB.

Then set the shares to match. The person who calls the most gets the biggest slice, and you can adjust the list any time a cousin gets a new number or a child goes off to campus. The beneficiaries need to be Safaricom numbers to receive a share; the minutes they receive can call any network.

On Bronze, the whole arrangement is KES 3,749 a month: a 40 Mbps line for the house and five phones with minutes or data on them, set once and repeated every month. Visit My OneApp to sign up for Family Share today.