i think it's a good initiative, but i'm wondering why they had to go
all the way to South Africa. Surely the likes of Mobile Planet /
Symbiotic etc are more than capable of delivering.
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)
>
> After declining to support Mixit as a product, MTN SA now looses more
> than 8M Rand (KES 80M) a day, and the sad part, the app runs on their
> platform on either gprs/edge.
>
> Kudos Safaricom, You Rock!
>
> Kiania
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