Indeed, m-pesa is way over-hyphed, but it's still the most advanced. I would think that it would be easier for a company (fb or not), to just port over all of the existing tech that works here already (lipa-na-mpesa, pay bill etc) over to another country instead of developing a new one.

On 10 May 2014 17:36, Jangita Nyagudi <jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com> wrote:

By the way, before they come to Kenya the top 20 numbers as of GSMA (2011) were

China Mobile 650m
SingTel (Singapore) 416m
Voda (UK) - 381m
Americal Mobvile (Mexico) 236m
Telefonica (Spain) 230m
Airtel (India) 227m
Orange (France) 217m
Telenor (Norway) 203m
VimpelCom (Russia) 193m
China Union 170m
Telia (Sweden) 160m
Axiata (Malaysia) 159m
Reliance (India) 144m
Saudi Telcom 139m
MTN South Africa 137m
Etisalat (UAE) 135m
TMobile (Germany) 128m
Verizon 106m
MTS (Russia) 103m
AT &T USA 100m

And I'm sure their mobile wallets hold more subscribers than ours,
maybe not as hyped...

On 10 May 2014 17:09, George Irungu <g.irungu@logicalcrest.co.ke> wrote:
> Not because its Kenya but because 20Million subscribers ain't nearly as many
> as a billion.
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>> From: jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com
>> Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 14:51:55 +0300
>> To: skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Should Facebook buy Mpesa?
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>> I don't think they could because this is Kenya :)
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>> On 10 May 2014 14:18, John K. <kamau.john@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Just read this article talking about Facebook's push into getting a
>> > piece of
>> > the action in mobile payments. Which got me thinking, why don't they
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>> > buy Mpesa from Vodacom and Safaricom? and if they do, what would happen?
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>> > I'm curious on what the effect would be on Mpesa if they did buy it out,
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>> > if they couldn't, the obstacles that would prevent them from acquiring
>> > it,
>> > legal or ortherwise. They did just spend a ton on whatsapp, money really
>> > isn't a problem for them!
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>> > Thoughts?
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