As have said earlier, these operators (Airtel, Yu) are a "Happy go lucky lot". They hope to ride on others and hope business will develop on its own without tangible investment and hard work The operators should just invest enough capital on their money transfer services. They should be ready to put billions on rolling out outlets like safaricom did. They should in addition pay dealers good commission to encourage setting up outlets. They should target to have an outlet for at least two of Safcom. This way, people will slowly start using the services. It is all about investing in the oulets. ________________________________ From: John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Yu urges Safaricom to open up M-Pesa to other networks Me thinks YU,Orange and Airtel should do what the Kenyan opposition did to defeat Moi in 2002, form a mobile money platform with enough scale to compete with Mpesa. But I'm pretty sure safcom is already working on other initiatives to stay ahead. They are more likely to launch the next Mpesa than any of its competitors are. As it is safcom is becoming a platform that allows other partners to make money off it. Much like FB or Google. Sustainability 101....me thinks it will soon become almost impossible to compete against safcom. On 2/1/12, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
@Ndwex that is exactly what it means. Ukoloni mambo leo
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Nd'wex Common <flexycat@gmail.com> wrote:
[OT] Some very funny comment I just wonder what happened
"...*In any case Mpesa is proprietary to Vodafone and under license to Safaricom and it is therefore not in our gift to further license it to any other player*."
Is this to mean that Vodafone can unplug mpesa at will or for any other reason deemed fit to them?
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