On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Samuel Waithaka <samwaithaka@gmail.com> wrote:

Lately, my employer moved ISPs to Safaricom. I glanced at an invoice
sometime (quite a sizable bill) and I kept asking, what's Safaricom's
vision? Take over everything from everyone? As in, there's nothing
wrong with sticking to your day job!

I was discussing with someone looking for hosting, and the moment they
discovered Safaricom's offerings quickly dumped an almost done deal.
(the poor small guy had really courted these people). This is the
reality of Safcom's trends.

As Aki mentioned earlier, I too find 'innovate or die' rhetoric so out
of touch with reality in this case.
May be we can learn a thing or two from Europe whom have what I find
to be very healthy unti-trust laws. Microsoft has had to pay heavy
fines, ordered to strip Media Player from Windows and on and on for
unfair practices. The point is, let everyone have equal chance.

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:10 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
> @Peter, I fully accept that we all should be leaders in technology,
> concepts and developments whether in small or big ways. The reason I
> call Safcom business developers dumb is because of the current trends.
> Why would any telco want become an IT company? Telco do telco things
> and grow revenues on bigger kills such as I listed. For sure something
> is not right in our Queen Bee. It can also be that Safcom is
> diversifying into IT to gain big govt contracts and supplies. Only
> time will tell what really is the reason for Safcom's trends.
>
> Anyway, we cannot change what is about to happen in the market over
> the next 2 years so we need to brace and ensure that everyone ( self
> employed, soho, sme ) looks after their clients well so as to build
> loyalty. Services is the key to this and I hope many will not be
> affected by the trends.
>
> Gd luck. :-)
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
> .
>>
>> @aki, reading your list of things Safcom should be doing but is not, I get
>> the impression that you are kinda blaming the "dump" business developers
>> there. Using the same concept, I can then blame you for not putting tyre
>> pressure censors and infra red cameras in your ride.
>>
>> They must have a reason why they are not doing that, it would be prudent to
>> know this reason before assigning blame.
>>
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