you could also add there's no way you can prove you sent money on mpesa. . and the lack of an API for third parties to embed in applications is a huge failing. as for payments esp kplc there are several cases of people who paid but were amazed to be disconnected anyway. something along the chain, at least for kenya power is not 100% reliable On 9/1/09, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Phares Kariuki<pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Talk starts at 6 pm. There will be some Journalists from CBC Canada, who will be keen to meet participants.
Would anybody know when, or if, the CBC journalists published their M-Pesa story?
They interviewed me on "the dark side of M-Pesa" apparently because they could not get critics of the safaricom service.
Explained to them that it was ridiculous for the service not to allow users to pick the "send-to" number from the phone book as opposed to have to wwrite down the number on a piece of papers then re-type it. Alternatively to pre-confirm to the user whom they intend to send the cash to before hitting the "send" button. Why bother telling me to whom I sent when it's already too late?
Otherwise, I am ever afraid to send large sums of money.
Lately I am curious as to why so many still prefer to use "manual" payment methods for example, electricity bills when Zap M-Pesa exist? I suspect M-Pesa used in urgent situations, where one has no choice or the alternative would be too expensive. If a cheaper alternative existed , then it would be bye bye M-Pesas and Zaps... _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general