Kiania.. Sembuse was shot down at safcom coz it "will cannibalize sms revenues"..their gravy train Kiania sez " 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! " symbiotic_logo Mbugua Njihia - CEO Chairman - Mobile Monday (Kenya Chapter) SYMBIOTIC MEDIA CONSORTIUM | Design:Develop:Deploy [a] Upper Hill Gardens, 3rd Ngong Avenue:Top floor Block D [t] +254 20 359 6305 [c] +254 721 668 709 +254 752 962 559 [e] mbugua@symbiotic.co.ke [w] www.symbiotic.co.ke [company blog] http://www.symbiotic.co.ke/blog/ [twitter] @mbuguanjihia [l] http://www.linkedin.com/mbuguanjihia [personal blog] http://www.mbuguanjihia.com ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ....................... Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential's fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets. This message may contain information, which is confidential, private or privileged in nature. If you are not the intended recipient of the message, you are notified that any distribution, use or copying of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately