[kictanet] Safaricom 3G Data Bundles - Skewed Decisions

[Odhiambo Washington]

They need to think this out, really. Their graphs must also be showing
significant curves from the time Bharti dropped the call rates across
networks. Anyway it's fine. It's a world of choices.


On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM, John Kieti <jkieti at gmail.com> wrote:

> Washington,
>
> This is one of the expected moves by Safaricom - of  attempting to convert
> their loyal voice customers to loyal data customers. They basically need to
> continue milking their ''Cash Cow' (voice) and at the same time urgently
> prop up their new revenue streams (eg. data).
>
> For some account, I used to have an average monthly invoice of 8K about 3
> years back, this fell to 3K 1 year back. More recently I was pleasantly
> surprised by a sub1K bill. Their revenue graphs have these trends screaming
> at them and no wonder the urgency to secure our loyalty to their newer
> product lines. That could restore a monthly bill like mine above to about 3k
>
> Best Regards
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Sometimes I wonder how the think tanks at Safaricom reason: What is the
>> difference between a PrePay 3G Internet user and a PostPay one, that makes
>> the PostPay one be given preferential treatment/consideration??
>>
>> On The DN of today, Safaricom has an Ad on Pg 3 on which they have
>> increased the 3G bundle amounts (disproportionately anyway), BUT ONLY FOR
>> PostPay customers?
>>
>> Seems like those elitist tendencies.
>>
>> I have used Safaricom modem data bundles from the start on PrePay, hence
>> my annoyance at Safaricom favoring PostPay (though I am a PostPay voice
>> user).
>>
>> Safaricom has now decided the PostPay user should get 700MB, up from 300MB
>> for KES 999.
>>
>> For now I'll stay with Orange. They give me 1GB for KES 850, not KES 999.
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Damn!!
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