@Aki, C'mon, is there anything that Safcom does that will not be interpreted as Anti-competitive? They are doing all they can to anticipate what their customers what and provide the services way in advance. Not unless you want us to be dragged back to the dark days of regulatory control, I fail to see your point. Are we now limiting the scope of a business in order to keep a level playing field? For all it's failings, MPesa is still a major success, and should their competition be up to it we should have punished them by switching to competition. What do we do, we still use Safcom. Lemme give you a head start on your research .. the reason for downtime last month was they were migrating MPESA to a dedicated SMSC in order to handle traffic requirements. Unlike other apps MPESA notification has to be sent and received instantaneously otherwise the transaction will not take place. If there's Safaricom Milk, I'll be on the queue because they have shown most appetite for innovation no matter how far they fall below our expectation ;-) Kiania On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:30 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi @David, I beg to differ. :-)
This is another way for Safaricom to close a business avenue on its network and again come out as being dominant. Basically it has shut out any competition on the chat IM via data services from any third parties. SILLY HUMOR = Let me know as soon as their most innovative and dominant ways get to every kenyans backyard , i.e Safaricom Pharmacies, Safaricom Web Design and Hosting, Safaricom Software Developers, Safaricom Cement Company, Safaricom Farms and Equipment ( they already have the colours green ) just to suggest a few.
What Safaricom is doing is going to affect many kenyans ( whether positivley or negatively ) yet it frequently cannot sustain services. As soon as time becomes available, am going to do some research into the Failures and Flaws of Mpesa, how it has affected the confidence of Kenyans in such systems yet we should be the torch bearers of our own innovations and standards. I hear the Mpesa Platform was down for almost 48-72 hours last month? Unacceptable especially for a service that affects millions of kenyans.
So what will Kenyan Devs have to say about this new development? You have just been AXED in your development work, poolay.
My twisted views, advanced apology to anyone who maybe offended or if this post seems out of place. :-)
Rgds.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:55 AM, David Kiania | Asentric Consulting Ltd <kianiadee@gmail.com> wrote:
For all the flack Safcom gets on this list we have to give them marks for innovation and forethought. In today's newspaper they have launched Mixit (http://www.mxitlifestyle.com/) is a Peer-to-Peer IM client that runs on mobile-to-mobile and desktop-to-mobile. While some see this as cannibalizing SMS revenues, it's a stroke of genius because they still stand to make cash from the data traffic as opposed to loosing it to a competitor all together. (Rule No. 4 in business: Cannibalize your revenue and business model before your competition does it for you)
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