Much as Aki has said, the relationship between Safcom and Voda(com? or phone) was not established on the 'till death do us part'! Therefore Safcom can strategically position itself as an independent entity from the Voda company. I thought a business usually has three main goals: short-term, mid-term and long-term. At the completion of the first two, the third one becomes inevitable, and it shows how the company wants to position itself in, say, 30 years. Does it mean if Voda moves at snail's pace Safcom remains stagnant because her partner does not rhink or see far? The logic here is that Safom should go wide (read continental), instead of edging the common person from eking a living! My ten cents! On 22/06/2010, Silas Savali <silas@afrikanism.com> wrote:
@Aki
I see a small problem in your list of Safcom potentials below. You see, Safaricom IS Vodafone. Vodafone is not keen on pushing the safcom brand! If it was up to the, they'd rename it Vodafone!
Two, Vodafone is already operating in other countries eg EA. If safcom was to go to let's say Ug and buy out Warid wouldn't they be directly competing against themselves?
On 22 June 2010 00:36, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
@Mark, just to give you an indication on how dumb the business developers in Safcom are, consider this ( sry, not offending anyone but I think this is the reality ). Safcom has the potential to become a huge African operator and create a boom for its shareholders.
Safcom has the capability to :
1) Buy Satellite transponders with various sat companies. They can create an African wide beam, develop a vsat service and build the dishes in kenya. Can be KU band. All the ODU,IDU equipment can be branded and sold off the shelf. This scenario alone will generate them millions of USD per month on bandwidth leasing.
2) On the same satellite services on un-used transponders, they can become next GTV. Millions of USD revenue can be made on content.
2) Integrate the sat service with fiber capacity and compete at national level and across borders.
3) Compete with KDN and TKL on national and regional fiber networks. KPLC fiber infrastructure is already in pace. Why buy capacity when you can own and price the networks?
4) DTV, broadband via fiber and sat.
5) Intergrate a broadcasters license and integrate 3g, 4g etc, DVB and other services into one stream. Create mobile vehicles that can carry microwave data and connect various services.
6) Start an inter-active DTV channel that will allow users to interact using 5) above
7) Start the rollout of high speed copper networks. Forget wireless, it has serious limitations.
8) Start buying out other GSM operators in other countries. If Zain could do it from the ME, what is stopping an Kenyan company doing the same? Again, it would increase its revenues.
The list is huge. Somehow they are keen on ideas that are born out of petty minds looking at getting a share of the lower end market. These minds cannot see how regional and international Safcom's presence can be.
The Queen Bee has some serious thinking to do.
Me thots. :-)
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
@Michael I do not understand this oppression you speak of. I am a user and have flirted with the other telcos but I have found few of their services are useful or reliable enough for me to switch allegiance.so who is being oppressed? @aki true safaricom are actually not very innovative but are very skilled @ localising products and being nimble on their feet and not being bogged down by bureaucracy. M-pesa is from vodafone uk , supaongea tariff is from MTN SA, e.t.c.
we should be pressuring the CCK and not a successful business. It has enough qualified officials and resources.
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