{
  "id": 641535,
  "title": "Safaricom reveals why your phone may drain data bundles despite being connected to Wi-Fi",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/safaricom-reveals-why-your-phone-may-drain-data-bundles-despite-being",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-12T06:09:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/news/safaricom-reveals-why-your-phone-may-drain-data-bundles-despite-being-connected-to-wi-fi"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Safaricom has explained why customers can sometimes lose their mobile data bundles even when their smartphones appear to be connected to Wi-Fi, following a complaint from a customer who claimed 4GB of data had disappeared in less than an hour. The explanation came after X user Aleckie Ronald (@SirAlexas) questioned Safaricom over the depletion of […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}