On 12/11/2009, Joram Mwinamo <joram.mwinamo@gmail.com> wrote:
Did safaricom patent Mpesa? Coz Obopay seems like a copy and paste of Mpesa only focusing on a much larger scale.
on this page
you find the following description. The part in red for me seems fishy, like she is taking the credit for a service that is already working perfectly here?Something doesnt add up. Maoni?
in 2005, Carol Realini founded Obopay to meet the nascent need for an industry leader in mobile payments. Today, Obopay — through partnerships with financial institutions such as Citi and MasterCard and mobile carriers — is using mobile phones to deliver financial services that empower people’s life and work.
Carol founded Obopay after traveling in Africa and recognizing that while mobile phones were ubiquitous, many people didn’t have access to even the most basic banking services. Recognizing the need and opportunity in both industrialized and developing nations, Carol designed Obopay’s business model to promote social and economic development throughout the world, by providing mobile savings, money transfer, and payments to people everywhere.
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Let MJ tell us! If Carol came to Africa and saw the need to develop Obopay, then she must have come to Kenya and saw what M-Pesa was doing and perfected on it. Her's is quiet better than M-Pesa since she has linked up with Master Card, something that we lack here. Generally, this could be copycat -- Solomon Mburu P.O. Box 19343 - 00202 Nairobi Cell: (+254-0) 735 431041 Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way to the side of a hill! AND It is better to die in dignity than in the ignomity of ambiguous generosity! http://dawn-in-kenya.blogspot.com https://smiley2.wordpress.com